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The Balance Between Mechanical and Creative Writing In David Copperfield
… thesis argues that Charles Dickens's novel, David Copperfield, represents writing as an art whose success depends on a dynamic relationship between the mechanical and the creative. The representations of writing in the novel comment on David's and Dickens's work as novelists. In the last …
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David Copperfield mar shaothar Gaeilge - Staidéar ar ghnéithe d’aistriúchán Sheáin Uí Ruadháin
Cuireadh tús le scéim aistriúcháin an Ghúim le comórtas a fograíodh go náisiúnta sa bhliain 1928. Is é a bhi mar aidhm leis an scéim seo an t-easnamh in ábhar léitheoireachta na Gaeilge a lionadh. Roinn Seán Ó Ruadháin agus Micheál Ó Siochfhradha céad ait an chomórtais, agus thug siad faoi Wild …
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Dickens and the Problem of Maturity: 'Dombey and Son,' 'David Copperfield,' 'Bleak House,' 'Great Expectations,' and 'Our Mutual Friend.'
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-08T22:38:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6801698.pdf: 9305212 bytes, checksum: d4e3d8e509a2244702eec2ebd1c8762c (MD5) Previous issue date: 1967
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The Novel Novel: Dickens' Reformulations of Shakespeare's Hamlet
… and I focus specifically on Great Expectations, David Copperfield, Nicholas Nickleby, and A Christmas Carol and divide my thesis into three major sections, the stage, the hero, and King Hamlet’s ghost.
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The Essence of English Identity: Gender's Role in the Stability of the Nation in English Literature, from the Anglo-Saxons to the Victorians
… Shakespeare's Macbeth, and Charles Dickens's David Copperfield reflect the interdependent spheres of gender relationships that affected societal perceptions of English national identity and stability for over a thousand years. Historian Geoffrey Hindley writes, "the historical reality of an …
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Fictional Selves: Creating Identity in the Victorian Fictional Autobiography
… of an explicitly fictional character. <em>David Copperfield</em> and <em>Bleak House</em> by Dickens and <em>Jane Eyre</em> and <em>Villette</em> by C. Bronte are openly imaginative works, but they are told through the thematic and formal conventions of the nascent genre of autobiography. I …
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Ixion's wheel: Masculinity and the figure of the circle in the novels of Charles Dickens
… reading of four novels--The Pickwick Papers, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities, and Great Expectations--the way in which masculinity and authorial subjectivity in Dickens's novels are bound to the figure of the circle, an image which functions both as a figure for an ideal narcissistic …
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Masculine Fantasies In Selected Novels by Charles Dickens
… (<em>Dombey and Son</em>), James Steerforth (<em>David Copperfield</em>), James Harthouse (<em>Hard Times</em>), Sydney Carton (<em>A Tale of Two Cities</em>), Orlick (<em>Great Expectations</em>), and Bradley Headstone (<em>Our Mutual Friend</em>).</p>
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Esther's Narrative in Bleak House
… characters who are autobiographical, like Pip or David Copperfield. Here my references are to the work of Susan R. Horton (The Reader in the Dickens World) and Mark Lambert (Dickens and the Suspended Quotation).</p> <p>A second section in the introduction discusses Dickens's reputation for being …
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The Craft of Fiction: Teaching Technique, 1850-1930
… to the public at large. Through a reading of David Copperfield, I show that, on the contrary, he tried to make the work of writing invisible to his readers.</p><p>Chapter Two focuses on the correspondence between Dickens's friend Bulwer-Lytton and his "pupil," Mary Elizabeth Braddon. The …
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The Wound and the Show: Representations of Eccentricity in Sterne, Wordsworth, Lamb, and Dickens
… is supported by two explanatory frameworks. In David Hume’s philosophy of self-experience, we see a shift from the emphasis of Lockean epistemology, which investigates the formation of patterns between self and world, toward a concern with trust and intersubjectivity. Hume’s philosophy of …