UN/ASHAMED: A BOURDEIEUAN READING OF SHAW’S MRS WARREN’S PROFESSION (1898) AND PINERO’S THE SECOND MRS TANQUERAY (1894)
Abstract
As Bourdieu argues we cannot think of authors or their work as if they exist in a vacuum. They are a part of the social, cultural, ideological, historical structure; not only a part but also a product, a result of structures that gave birth to them. As an impoverished Anglo-Irish immigrant economically dependent on his mother socially, economically, politically and culturally Shaw was an outsider. This paper aims to read Mrs Warren’s Profession from a Bourdieuan point of view. To do that this paper takes Pinero’s The Second Mrs Tanqueray as a representative of conventional West End play. Pinero’s play has a significant role in the composition of Mrs Warren’s Profession since Shaw in many different occasions related the idea of writing Mrs Warren’s Profession as a reaction against the social hypocrisy and shallowness presented in The Second Mrs Tanqueray.
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Primary Language
English
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Journal Section
Research Article
Authors
Atalay Gündüz
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0000-0003-0325-5191
Türkiye
Publication Date
October 22, 2019
Submission Date
July 18, 2019
Acceptance Date
September 4, 2019
Published in Issue
Year 2019 Volume: 6 Number: 2