Journal: Arts Studies and Criticism DOI: 10.32629/asc.v7i3.5347
Abstract
Katherine Anne Porter’s Noon Wine profoundly reveals the complexity of human nature and the operational logic of social power. Using Foucault’s theory of disciplinary power as an analytical framework, this paper explores the dynamic interaction between discipline and resistance in the novel, examines how power permeates daily life, family, and the labor field to shape individual behavior, and analyzes how characters resist through covert resistance and overt rebellion. The novel presents the individual’s existential struggle and self-identity construction within the power structure, offering an important literary reference for understanding the relationship between power and the individual in modern society.
Keywords
Discipline; Resistance; Power Theory; Noon Wine
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