The Reader in the Dickensian Mirrors - Some New Language (Hardcover)

Through close attention to the representation of the reader in 10 of Dickens novels, this study brings their specifically Victorian assumptions into direct confrontation with the insights of modern critical theory. In doing so, the study locates in Dickens a tendency to 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 decontructive system of differences as a reconstructive system of resemblances. In short, Schad is finally concerned with some new and quite mythical idea of language.

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 1991
First published:	1992
Authors:	S. J. Schad
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	224
ISBN-13:	978-0-333-52126-7
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 19th century Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General
LSN:	0-333-52126-9
Barcode:	9780333521267

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