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Dickens's comic art: a study of the comic element in Dombey and Son, Little Dorrit, and Great Expectations
It is my contention in this thesis that the comic nature of Dickens's mature fiction has not received the degree of attention that its importance warrants. In particular, the questions left unanswered, or to my mind not satisfactorily answered, by modern critics of Dickens are: why does Dickens …
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Dickens's comic art: a study of the comic element in Dombey and .son, little Dorrit, and great expectations
The new Clarendon Dickens Edition (General Editors: John Butt and Kathleen Tillotson), was not available at the time' of writing for all of the novels which are studied in this thesis. Considerations of consistency and availability, therefore, dictated my use of the New Oxford Illustrated Edition …
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Reading the Word and the World through Graphic Novels: A Graphic Portrayal of Young Adult Literacy Development in a Ninth Grade English Literature Classroom
… reading from a more critical social lens. Participants in this case study were chosen from a set of ninth grade literature classes in a rural high school. The students were placed as a result of the random selection of heterogeneously mixed student abilities providing a rich mix of …
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Truth Games: Fact, Fiction, and Performance in British Autobiographical Comics
… where the focus is his individual life, in particular the story of his personality’ (1989, p.4). On Autobiography built on Lejeune’s earlier writing, particularly his theory of the Autobiographical Pact (1974), in which the author and reader enter an implicit agreement where the author tells …