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Charles Dicken[s]'s Great expectations

Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher: Philadelphia : Chelsea House Publishers, ©2000.
Series: Modern critical interpretations.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:
This book is a collection of critical essays on Charles Dickens' novel "Great Expectations," essays written by Murray Baumgarten, Peter Brooks, Carolyn Brown, William A. Cohen, Edwin M. Eigner, David Gervais, and others.
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Named Person: Charles Dickens; Charles Dickens
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Harold Bloom
ISBN: 0791056619 9780791056615
OCLC Number: 42652630
Description: 310 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Calligraphy and code: writing in Great expectations / Murray Baumgarten --
Repetition, repression, and return: the plotting of Great expectations / Peter Brooks --
Great expectations: masculinity and modernity / Carolyn Brown --
Manual conduct in Great expectations / William A. Cohen --
The absent clown in Great expectations / Edwin M. Eigner --
The prose and poetry of Great expectations / David Gervais --
"In primal sympathy": Great expectations and the secret life / Elliot L. Gilbert --
"Pip" and "property": the (re)production of the self in Great expectations / Gail Turley Houston --
Charles Dickens's Great expectations: a defense of the second ending --
The bad faith of Pip's bad faith: deconstructing Great expectations / Christoper D. Morris --
Progression and the synthetic secondary character: the case of John Wemmick / James Phelan --
Prison-bound: Dickens and Foucault / Jeremy Tambling --
The magic circle of genius: Dickens' translations of Shakespearean drama in Great expectations / William A. Wilson --
Oedipus and Telemachus / Anny Sadrin.
Series Title: Modern critical interpretations.
Other Titles: Charles Dicken's Great expectations
Great expectations
Responsibility: edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.

Abstract:

This book is a collection of critical essays on Charles Dickens' novel "Great Expectations," essays written by Murray Baumgarten, Peter Brooks, Carolyn Brown, William A. Cohen, Edwin M. Eigner, David Gervais, and others.

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