Crossing Out Normative Boundaries in Psychosis

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 335-364
Author(s):  
Richard L. Lanigan ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Charles Dickens ◽  
Bleak House ◽  
Semiotic Systems ◽  
Discourse Formation

The coding function of semiotic-systems in literature is explored as an example of Umberto Eco’s real and fictional protocols in the play of discourse formation (lector in fabula). The intricate phenomenological levels of intersemiotic translation (apposition, opposition, chiasm, zeugma) are illustrated by analyzing a rhetorical passage (semiotic object) from Charles Dickens’ novel Bleak House. The passage on the logic of series (“lists”) allows us to explore fact/fiction, real/imaginary, normal/abnormal, sane/insane, neurotic/psychotic choices as discourse voice protocols (active, middle, passive) for the axiological interpretation (ethic, moral, aesthetic, politic, and rhetoric) of meaning formation (tropes) and signification function (figures). Models of discourse are drawn from Benveniste, Foucault, Greimas, Lévi-Strauss, and Wilden.

Charles Dickens: The Woolf Afterlife

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 292-310
Author(s):  
Michael Hollington
Keyword(s):  
Charles Dickens ◽  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Jane Austen ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Fyodor Dostoevsky ◽  
Bleak House ◽  
Familiar Essay ◽  
The One ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Critical Writings

This essay begins with a survey of attitudes towards Charles Dickens in the extended Stephen family, as these were inherited by the modernist writer Virginia Woolf. On the one hand, there is the strongly negative view of her Uncle Fitzy (Sir James Fitzjames Stephen), and the lukewarm, rather condescending opinion of her father Leslie Stephen. On the other, there is the legacy of enthusiastic attention and appropriation from William Makepeace Thackeray's two daughters – her aunt Anne Thackeray Ritchie and (posthumously) Min, Leslie Stephen's first wife. In the second section I survey Woolf's critical writings on Dickens, adding a glance at the opinions of her husband Leonard. In both, there is an evolution towards greater attention and enthusiasm. Besides Woolf's familiar essay on David Copperfield (1849–50), I give prominence to lesser-known writings, in particular to her laudatory assessment and analysis of Bleak House (1852–3). The third and final part concerns signs of the influence of Dickens in Woolf's first novel, The Voyage Out (1915). The earlier, satiric part of the novel shows the impact both of Jane Austen and Dickens as ironists and humourists. During the tragic conclusion, influenced by a reading of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jane Austen drops out, but Dickens is retained.

scholarly journals VERB ELLIPSIS IN CHARLES DICKENS’S NOVEL: “BLEAK HOUSE” ELLIPSIS VERBA DALAM NOVEL CHARLES DICKENS: “BLEAK HOUSE”

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-16
Author(s):  
Susan Aryanti
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Charles Dickens ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Bleak House ◽  
Descriptive Method

This research entitled “Verb Ellipsis in Charles Dickens’s Novel: Bleak House” discusses about the existence of verb ellipsis in the clause of the novel. The research uses theory from Nunan in his book entitled “Introducing Discourse Analysis” (1993). This research also uses theory from McShane in his book entitled “A Theory of Ellipsis” (2005). In addition, this research uses descriptive method to analyze the data based on the discussion. The data are taken from the novel Bleak House by Charles Dickens because it has many words that are omitted although the reader can still understand. Based on the analysis, the data can be indicated as verba ellipsis. It also includes the type of verba ellipsis, which is gapping. The data can be indicated as gapping because the verb can be omitted in the second part of the clause since it contains the same verb, such as verb position in the first and second clause. In other words, gapping is an ellipsis process that makes unseen verb. Additionally, this research is made to describe the role of verba ellipsis in the clause or in the conversation of the novel. Moreover, it also completes the previous research to discuss ellipsis especially about verb ellipsis.

The Victorian Gentleman Dandified: Aspects of Dandyism in Charles Dickens’ Bleak House and A Tale of Two Cities

2011 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 579-592
Author(s):  
Katri Sirkel
Keyword(s):  
Charles Dickens ◽  
Bleak House ◽  
Two Cities

The Victorian Gentleman Dandified: Aspects of Dandyism in Charles Dickens’ Bleak House and A Tale of Two Cities

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