The employment of Marxist hermeneutics in this book "Hamlet and Oblomov: A Comparative Study" yielded the result that the superfluous heroes belong to the decadent land-owning and serf-owning aristocrat class, representing class confusion, irresolution and procrastination of the intelligentsia of their age. It can easily be inferred from this comparison that the superfluous disappointment and disenchantment of the superfluous heroes of world literature with the existing social formation and status quo of their era and their inability to find dimension and desire to change them may be termed...

This work interprets the text of the play Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett in a Post-Structuralist perspective to understand its complex relationships with the late modernist bourgeois ideology. In an effort to look for the signification of contradictions within the text of the play and its complex relationships to the late modernist bourgeois ideology, one can actually make a choice to unfold vigorous theoretical energies of the Post-Structuralist Althusserian Marxist theory of decentred text and Derridean Deconstructionism. The research based upon Post-Structuralist Althusserian Marxist...