The Reader in the Dickensian Mirrors: Some New Language (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781349218356)

Through close attention to the representation of the reader in ten of Dickens's novels, this study brings their specifically Victorian assumptions into direct confrontation with the insights of modern critical theory. The study locates in Dickens a tendency to so reanimate the ancient principle of mimesis that not only does the text become a mirror held up to its reader but, in a radical revision of our post-Saussurean understanding, language becomes not so much a deconstructive system of differences as a reconstructive system of resemblances.

Author: S. J. Schad
ISBN-10: 1349218359
ISBN-13: 9781349218356
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 01/01/1992
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.68lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.55d