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Milhan, Trish. "Developing new approaches to Dickens' Great Expectations." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1993. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/707.

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Ryrberg, Sophie. "Conversion in Great Expectations : An analysis of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations from a conversion narrative perspective." Thesis, Karlstads universitet, Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-32017.

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This essay will analyse Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations from a conversion narrative perspective. It will show that the journey of the protagonist Pip have resemblances to the journey of Dante in Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy. The reason for this is that Great Expectations is an equally clear example of a conversion narrative as The Divine Comedy. Both Pip and Dante meet sinners along their way, but the focus is on how the protagonists deal with their own sins. Pip goes through a typical conversion, where he goes from an avaricious, prodigal and proud person, to a man who values work

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Christoph, Lydia K. "Disenchantment the formation, distortion, and transformation of identity in Charles Dickens' Great Expectations /." Lynchburg, Va. : Liberty University, 2009. http://digitalcommons.liberty.edu.

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Hedman, Jonsson Emma. "Stereotypical images of women in Dickens’ Great Expectations and Wood’s East Lynne." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för språkstudier, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-184382.

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The purpose of this essay was to analyze the stereotypical images of women in Great Expectation by Charles Dickens and East Lynne by Ellen Wood, using feminist literary criticism as a theoretical perspective. The stereotypical images that were found were Cynthia Griffin Wolff’s sentimental stereotype, virtuous woman, the sensuous woman, and liberated woman; and Ferguson’s woman alone, submissive wife and the bitch. The virtuous woman, the submissive wife and the sentimental stereotype can all be seen as representations of the Victorian ideal, while the other stereotypes can be seen as represen

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Fayemi-Wiesebron, Anne-Gaëlle. "L'objet dickensien, entre profusion et vide : étude de l'objet dans David Copperfield, Bleak House et Great Expectations." Thesis, Rennes 2, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012REN20039/document.

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Pris dans les rouages de la révolution industrielle, l'objet dickensien est synonyme d'abondance. Cette profusion d'objets – qu'ils soient concrets ou diégétiques – permet au texte ses plus beaux excès et se prête à merveille au jeu de la collection et des listes, chères à Dickens. Les objets brillent de possibilités inouïes, bousculent l'ordre préétabli et en viennent à supplanter les personnages, souvent relégués au second plan. Le récit, réaliste, est incrusté de surnaturel et fait aussi bien allégeance à l'excès qu'à l'ordre qui en découlera. Les deux extrêmes oeuvrent donc à la réconcilia

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Navarro, Latorre Fernanda. "Great expectations: subjectivities moving through the public and private realm." Tesis, Universidad de Chile, 2012. http://www.repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/112717.

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Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades<br>Informe de seminario para optar al grado de Licenciada en Lengua y Literatura Inglesa<br>This work is in line with the main theme in our seminar ‘The City and the urban subject in English and American Literature’. In the course of it we have studied the first appearance of the urban subject, amazed by the new metropolitan surroundings that he finds himself in. Then comes the Fláneur who observes, sometimes as an outsider, the new bohemian life in the big cities and finally cannot find a place to fit in the crowd, or either enjoying the crowd in their lone

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RAZANANTSOA, GAYET LALAO FARA. "La question du sujet dans la fiction de charles dickens : oliver twist, david copperfield et great expectations." Lyon 2, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999LYO20020.

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La fiction dickensienne met en scene ce qui permet l'avenement d'un sujet a l'ordre symbolique de la parole. La diegese des trois romans choisis illustre comment le desir vient s'articuler a la loi de l'interdit, lorsqu'un processus de substitution permet a l'innommable de se faire entendre a travers les rets du discours, regulant ainsi le rapport du sujet a l'objet du desir. Notre tache, en tantque lecteur, a consiste a etre a l'ecoute de cette parole venue d'ailleurs, d'etudier le travail d'un texte qui voile et devoile a la fois le desir qu'il tait et l'impuissance a le dire, tout en disant

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Persson, Dennis. "The Industrialised City of Great Expectations? : Pip's journey from the marshes to the city." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för språk och litteratur, SOL, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-10215.

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This bachelor thesis will have its focus on Great Expectations by Charles Dickens. The central claim of this thesis is that in the novel Great Expectations, the protagonist Pip is used by Dickens as a metaphor for the British urbanization during the period of industrialisation. The literary theory that will help to analyse and prove this claim will be New Historicism. The central praxis of using non-literary historical documents and comparing them it to a literary text such as Great Expectations will be used in the discussion part of this thesis. As New Historicism tends to be unclearly

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Sugano, Motoko School of English UNSW. "Inheritance and expectations: the ambivalence of the colonial orphan figure in post-colonial re-writings of Charles Dickens???s Great Expectations." Awarded by:University of New South Wales. School of English, 2005. http://handle.unsw.edu.au/1959.4/23927.

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This thesis considers the colonial literary relationship between the ???centre??? and the ???margin??? in the field of post-colonial counter-discourse. As such, this thesis investigates the possibility of disrupting the dominance of Empire, which is often rhetorically constructed through the certainty of the parent and child binary relationship. By analysing the orphan???s affiliational associations, which exist beyond the traditional binary of parent and child in the colonial relationship, I argue that the orphan, as both figure and trope, becomes a site of resistance to the dominant colonial

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Al-Shaye, Shatha Abdullah Abdulrahman. "The retranslation phenomenon : a sociological approach to the English translations of Dickens' 'Great Expectations' into Arabic." Thesis, University College London (University of London), 2018. http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10053496/.

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The thesis aims to examine the phenomenon of retranslation as a socially situated activity. It provides an evidence-based approach to the practice of literary retranslation in Arabic-speaking countries, a cultural space that has not been examined thoroughly and systematically. This thesis goes beyond established research and compelements existing studies by highlighting the importance of ascertaining the details beyond theoretical issues related to retranslation using the support of textual, paratextual and contextual evidence from a comparative analysis of a number of translations. Through a

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Fayemi-Wiesebron, Anne-Gaëlle Adetôla. "L'objet dickensien, entre profusion et vide : étude de l'objet dans David Copperfield, Bleak House et Great Expectations." Phd thesis, Université Rennes 2, 2012. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00753707.

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Pris dans les rouages de la révolution industrielle, l'objet dickensien est synonyme d'abondance. Cette profusion d'objets - qu'ils soient concrets ou diégétiques - permet au texte ses plus beaux excès et se prête à merveille au jeu de la collection et des listes, chères à Dickens. Les objets brillent de possibilités inouïes, bousculent l'ordre préétabli et en viennent à supplanter les personnages, souvent relégués au second plan. Le récit, réaliste, est incrusté de surnaturel et fait aussi bien allégeance à l'excès qu'à l'ordre qui en découlera. Les deux extrêmes oeuvrent donc à la réconcilia

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Seman, Taylor J. "Dickens against the Grain: Gendered Spheres and Their Transgressors in Bleak House, Hard Times, and Great Expectations." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors1307384151.

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Minghui, Li. "Norms of translating fiction from English into Chinese (1979-2009) : the case of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations." Thesis, University of Salford, 2014. http://usir.salford.ac.uk/32022/.

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This study investigates the norms in the translation of fiction from English into Chinese in the period 1979 to 2009 by considering five Chinese translations of Charles Dickens’ novel Great Expectations produced by Wang Keyi (1979), Luo Zhiye (1994), Chen Junqun (1997), Zhu Wan and Ye Zun (2004) and Jin Changwei (2009). In addition, and in order to give proper weighting to para-textual elements, three adaptations for younger readers form the second part of the main analysis: those produced by Liu Lianqing and Zhang Zaiming (1980), Huang Qingyun (1990) and Wang Bei (2004). An examination of Chi

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Scheirer, Bianca L. "Epistemology of the unspoken, sex, secrets and the child in Dickens' Great expectations and James' What maisie knew." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1997. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp05/mq24619.pdf.

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Beneke, Nanette. "The formation and transformation of identity in the novel and film of Great expectations by Charles Dickens / N. Beneke." Thesis, North-West University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10394/582.

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The research done in this study was motivated by the notion that individuals (or societies) create their own reality through the specific space they occupy at a certain moment in time. This concept of reality implies an "interspace" between (con)texts that could be described as a hybrid (a term that is used to describe the mixing or intermingling of different aspects or liminal space between various (con)texts. As the notion of identity is closely related to the interaction of the individual with a specific context, the main aim of the research was to promote hybridity as a form of identity by

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Bird, Barbara. "The Victorians and role performance : the middle class gentleman in John Halifax, gentleman and Great expectations." Virtual Press, 2001. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1221277.

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This project investigates the social role of gentleman in Victorian England as defined in two Victorian novels, Dinah Maria Mulock's John Halifax, Gentleman and Charles Dickens's Great Expectations. Mulock and Dickens promote the middle-class gentleman as a role that prioritizes the fulfillment of duty. Mulock's protagonist, John Halifax, displays this gentlemanliness throughout his social and economic rise. He bridges the upper and lower classes and embodies both a model and a pathway to middleclass gentlemanliness. Dickens's protagonist, Pip, develops this middle-class gentlemanliness as he

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Zeske, Karen Marie. "Browning and Dickens: Religious Direction in Victorian England." Thesis, University of North Texas, 1991. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc500704/.

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Many Nineteenth century writers experienced the withdrawal of God discussed by Miller in The Disappearance of God. Robert Browning and Charles Dickens present two examples of "Fra Lippo Lippi" and Great Expectations model effective alternatives to accepting God's absence. Conversely "Andrea del Sarto" accepts the void the other two heroes shun.

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Folléa, Clémence. "Dickens excentrique : persistances du Dickensien." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016USPCC146.

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Cette thèse examine des trajectoires imaginaires décrites dans l’œuvre de Charles Dickens et à partir d’elle. On y étudie le texte et les réincarnations de Great Expectations (1860-61), Oliver Twist (1837-39) puis The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1870), trois romans qui, depuis l’ère victorienne, pénètrent l’imaginaire collectif et alimentent des discours divers, toujours influencés par leurs conditions de production. Ainsi, cette thèse pratique des microanalyses de ses sources primaires tout en prêtant attention au contexte de chaque œuvre. Son corpus comprend des adaptations filmiques mais aussi

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Virbukienė, Eglė. "The Poetics of the Bildungsroman in “Great Expectations” by Charles Dickens, “Of Human Bondage” by William Somerset Maugham and “The Cider House Rules” by John Irving." Bachelor's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2013. http://vddb.laba.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2013~D_20130802_123415-73676.

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The object of the present research is the features of the Bildungsroman genre “Great Expectations” by Charles Dickens, “Of Human Bondage” by William Somerset Maugham and “The Cider House Rules” by John Irving. The aim of the Bachelor Thesis is to explore structural and poetic elements (canons) of the Bildungsroman in the aforementioned novels. To achieve the aim the following objectives have been set: 1) to overview the history of the Bildungsroman and to present theoretical poetic elements of such a genre; 2) to identify the key features of the Bildungsroman in the aforementioned

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Larsson, Per. "Within the Interpretation of Dreams : A Freudian Reading of Nick Hornby’s High Fidelity." Thesis, Halmstad University, School of Teacher Education (LUT), 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-1305.

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<p>“To be, or not to be” surely constitutes a strange walk on the tight rope between delusion and reality, and apparently, Robert Fleming is a man with immense problems. Who is Ziggy Stardust, and who is Stephen Dedalus? Is it relevant to claim that there is more of David Bowie’s true personality inside Ziggy than of, for instance Charles Dickens’ great expectations within Pip? By examining Nick Hornby’s novel High Fidelity and it’s main character from a Freudian perspective using Freud’s theories and ideas of the oedipal concept, this is basically a plain attempt in search for a better psycho

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Pukari, M. (Minna). "The purpose of dialect in Charles Dickens’s novel Great Expectations." Bachelor's thesis, University of Oulu, 2016. http://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:oulu-201602031111.

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In this study, I was interested in finding out what purpose dialects serve in Charles Dickens’s novel Great Expectations. I used Susan Ferguson’s notions on ficto-linguistics and Peter Stockwell’s ideas on invented language to create the theoretical background for my study. The analysis focused on three characters of the novel, namely Joe Gargery, Abel Magwitch, and Pip. I examined what role dialect — in the case of Pip, the lack of one — plays in the character construction of these three characters. Additionally I analysed the dialects in relation to the major themes of the novel. The findin

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Wen-chung, Huang, and 黃文忠. "Charles Dickens' Great Expectations: A Zen-Buddhist Study." Thesis, 1999. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/65604686699074539163.

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碩士<br>淡江大學<br>西洋語文研究所<br>87<br>Abstract： This thesis attempts to investigate Dickens' Great Expectations from the Zen-Buddhist perspective, exploring mainly Pip, the protagonist, who suffers greatly because of his excessive attachment. This blurs his originally pellucid Buddha-nature. Also, the thesis, in the later part, analyzes the possibilities in which Pip can get enlightened as a result of his prajna-wisdom and compassion. Chapter One, as the theoretical foundation of the thesis, introduces the origin of Zen-Buddhism and its developmental stages in

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Lin, Zheng-Yan, and 林政言. "Deprived Childhood in Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist and Great Expectations." Thesis, 2014. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/c2v33r.

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碩士<br>東吳大學<br>英文學系<br>102<br>The thesis analyzed the growth processes of two protagonists, Oliver Twist and Philip Pirrip, in Oliver Twist and Great Expectations. Readers can be closer to Dickens’ inner and literary world from realizing these protagonists’ life experiences and struggling processes for difficulties. The study will show the created world of Charles Dickens’ childhood and how the influence made him a writer. Like the main character in his novels, Charles Dickens only went to school for some time in his childhood. It is the studying and hard work that made him a famous writer.

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卓瑋恩. "Decoding Victorian Aspirations through Fashion Appearing in Dickens’ Great Expectations." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/79088185120547160659.

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碩士<br>東海大學<br>外國語文學系<br>105<br>Dickens’ Great Expectations (1861), a deluded gentleman’s dream, reveals the rising bourgeoisie’s attempt to use materiality to cross Victorian strict social boundaries and gain approval from higher social classes. This thesis aims to explore the function and roles of fashion in the Victorian era through an examination of Dickens’ novels, especially Great Expectations. Through analyzing characters’ outfits and fashion-related descriptions appearing in Great Expectations, readers are able to gain a deeper insight into identity and social injustice problems caused

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YU-HSUEH, HSU, and 許裕雪. "Quest for Self-Identity: A Bakhtinian Interpretation of Charles Dickens'' Great Expectations." Thesis, 2001. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/04928205022226088102.

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碩士<br>國立高雄師範大學<br>英語學系<br>89<br>The so-called Bildungsromane or education novels are blooming in the nineteenth-century in the Victorian era of England. Charles Dickens’ autobiographical novel Great Expectations reflects the background of the era as well as strong individualism. The rise of capitalism leads to misdirected social values and people during this age were eager to long for wealth as well as social status, regardless of any moral concern. Nevertheless, Pip, the protagonist of Great Expectations, makes a great effort to regain his own instinct sincerely and keep his morality intac

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Lin, Yu-Ting, and 林玉婷. "The Dynamics of Space: Alienation and Mystification in Charles Dickens' Great Expectations." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/m7dje4.

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碩士<br>國立臺灣師範大學<br>英語學系<br>105<br>Great Expectations, written by Charles Dickens in 1861, vividly demonstrates space as a social product to expose the dynamics of capitalism, alienation and mystification. Dickens’ narrative is published in the era of industrialization. Nevertheless, most critics, such as Alan Lelchuk, J. Hillis Miller, Rosa Mucignat, and many others have focused on the spatial reading of Pip, overlooking the importance of secondary characters and the aspects of capitalism in the novel. However, despite the multiple spatial aspects presented in the fiction, I believe that Dicken

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Wu, Pei-fen, and 吳佩芬. "A Study of Social Reflection in Dickens''s Great Expectations And Its Applictation to English Teaching." Thesis, 1997. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/08261857109194049181.

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碩士<br>國立彰化師範大學<br>英語教育研究所<br>85<br>The importance of Great Expectations lies on its attack on the Victorian society--on the issues of the penal system, the latent threat to the human world that lies beneath the age of an industrial society and people''s craze formammonism. Dickens''s art and dexterity of using the autobiographical mode and, in particular, associating some major characters with social symbols, truly make this novel achieve an unrivaled status. This thesis examines the import

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Lin, Woan-shiuan, and 林宛萱. "Major Social Values in Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations." Thesis, 2017. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/7dd26g.

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碩士<br>國立中央大學<br>英美語文學系<br>105<br>This thesis aims to investigate the social values of the Victorian people through the analysis of Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations. The Victorian Age is well-known for its rapid development of industry, innovative theories of science, and massive expansion of its territory, all of which make England a country full of opportunities. However, these changes also bring the Victorians uncertainties and worries to themselves and the country. Through analyzing Great Expectations, we will be able to observe how these alterations change people’s social values and th

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LAI, SHU-FANG, and 賴淑芳. "Alienation in charles Dickens's Hard times and Great expectations." Thesis, 1992. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/82591826675380348908.

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碩士<br>國立中正大學<br>外國語文研究所<br>80<br>1 Introduction 2 Self-Alienation 3 Agony and Dissatisfaction in Male/Female Relationship 4 Alienation as a Social Phenomenon 5 Conclusion Selected Bibliography

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Tsai, Mythena Mei-yu, and 蔡美玉. "A Rhetoric of Dialogic Imagination in Charles Dickens's Great Expectations." Thesis, 1993. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/77631385561030821095.

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KAO, SHUR-TZY, and 高淑姿. "The code of the gentleman-hero in charles dickens's great expectations." Thesis, 1992. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/82733509517277360177.

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Chin, Tien-Ai, and 覃天愛. "Ubiquitous Paper in Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations and Our Mutual Friend." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/zgbgnr.

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碩士<br>國立臺灣大學<br>外國語文學研究所<br>104<br>This thesis investigates the materiality and active agency of paper in two of Charles Dickens’s late novels, Great Expectations and Our Mutual Friend, from the perspective of New Materialism and thing theory. I argue that paper is the basis of narratives of both novels, and that it is an active actant which holds radiant agency to affect others with its materiality.   I first delineate the nineteenth-century discussion on paper with a focus on the physicality, manufacture, and proliferation of the material to demonstrate the Victorian anxiety about ubiqui

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Huang, Yu-Lin, and 黃毓羚. "Darwinian Reading of Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations : The Application of Natural Selection and Sexual Selection." Thesis, 2006. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/13803393502495293853.

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碩士<br>國立成功大學<br>外國語文學系碩博士班<br>94<br>The Victorian period can be regarded as a watershed of the history of literature. Before the Victorian period, people tended to see the world from a religious point of view. Because of the improvement of science, Victorians began to change their attitudes and started to consider things from a scientific perspective. Charles Darwin, the author of The Origin of Species and The Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex, introduced evolutionary theory and created a heated dispute that has lasted, to some degree, even until today. This thesis applies Darwin

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