The Previous Research LITERATURE REVIEW

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CHAPTER 2.LITERATURE REVIEW

2.1 The Previous Research

The previous researches are necessary materials to support this thesis. The previous researches explain an equal topic and have correlation to this resarch. There are several previous researches that assist the researcher to comprehend more. The first is a journal proposed by Yumnam Oken Si ngh and Gyanabati Khuraijam entitled Aestheticism, Decadence, and Symbolism:Fin de Siecle Movement in Revolt. This journal explains the Aestheticism, Decadence, and Symbolism which become the movements of art and literatrure that exist in late nineteenth century in England. The name of Aestheticism and Decadence held the doctrin of l’rt pour l’art which they look forward to the beauty and pleasure and place form over content. The doctrin of Aestheticism is the art exists for the sake of its own beauty without relating to the social, political and moral purposes. This journal uses the base theory by Immanuel Kant which is concerned to the judgement of taste. The theory is supported by the philosophy of Aristotle that is art is as the immitation. The second research is paper entitled “A Study of Art and Aestheticism in Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray” proposed by Jenny Simeus which discusses about the aestheticism philosophy which expressed within the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray. This thesis discusses of how Oscar Wilde represents the philosophy of art thorugh the three characters which are, Dorian Gray, Basil Hallward and Lord Henry. Jenny focuses her thesis on the forms of art within the novel which are art of painting, art of literature and art of acting. Jenny refers to the preface of this novel and three of his forms of art to discover the purpose of Wilde in writing this novel by considering to the art philosophy. The aim of this thesis is to show several points which consist of art representation by focussing to the characters. This kind of representation used by Wilde to prove that this novel regarded as the aestheticism object. 5 The third is a journal written by Yuliana Puspitasari entitled Negotiationg Modernity, Resisting Tradition: Genetic Structuralism Analysis on Buchi Emecheta’s The Bride Price. This thesis analyses Buchi Emecheta’s novel, The Bride Price which describes the binnary opposition between the modernism and traditional thought of society reflected on this novel. By using the genetic structuralism theory, the researcher analyses a female character who has a modern thought and live in traditional society with traditional thought, the problem occurs when the character wants to get a balance of her thought and society but she gets a rejection from the environment. The researcher also want to analyze the author world view and the Nigerian social structure. Through the binnary opposition, this thesis reveals the differences between modern and traditional thought in order to discovers the social structure of Nigerian in 1950-1970. The last is a thesis by using Genetic Structuralism also written by Witri Nur’aini entitled Genetic Structuralism Analysis on “Lucky Jim” by Kingsley Amis . This thesis focuses on the intrinsict aspect of the novel ‘Lucky Jim’ by Kingsley Amis in which the characters and the extrinsict elements describe about the social life ’s background of England after World War II. By using the Goldmann ’s Genetic Structuralism, the writer discovers the relation between character characteristics on the novel with the social condition when the novel ‘Lucky Jim’ was written which is the social condition of England after the World War II. My thesis has a close relation with the entire thesis above since it discusses Wilde ’s novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray focusses on the analysis of the novel’s structure to reconstruct an author’s world view and politics of aestheticism by using genetic structuralism of Lucien Goldmann. The first and the second thesis contribute to my research through the description and understanding of the aestheticism especially in Wilde ’s works, the third and last research explain the genetic structuralism theory in order to construc t the author’s world view. 6

2.2 Lucien Goldmann Genetic Structuralism