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CONTRIBUTORS:
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JOURNAL:
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Revue Tunisienne des Langues Vivantes,
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22.
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YEAR:
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2003
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PUB TYPE:
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Journal Article
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SUBJECT(S):
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The use of popular culture in The Chimes
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Literature
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LANGUAGE:
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English
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PUB ID:
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103-405-483
(Last edited on
2004/07/26 12:38:18 GMT-6)
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ABSTRACT:
The object of this study is to attempt to show how The Chimes utilises with respect to its reading public recognisable patterns of popular cultural reference both in form and in content. By thus responding to the readers’ horizon of expectation, it establishes narrative authority in ways that make heard the voices of those that Frantz Fanon calls “the wretched of the earth.” Because the use of dramatic forms, or the forms of any other genre, in narrative has been well charted, this study does not aim at breaking new theoretical ground. As an author, Dickens was steeped in the history of everyday life, or what Michel deCerteau calls practice. He was widely acknowledged in this role throughout his life, and this is perhaps the reason why today any reader of English might dislike some Dickens, but not the whole of Dickens. This study founds itself on such a conviction, and also positions itself within the framework of a tradition pioneered by M.M. Bakhtin, Lucien Goldmann, Raymond Williams, and Patrick Brantlinger. Moreover, rather than use the Dickensian text for a purpose that was never contemplated either by its author or its readers, this study has tried to concentrate on the workings of that text.
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