PRIVATE AND PUBLIC SPACES IN CHARLES DICKENS’S GREAT EXPECTATIONS
PRIVATE AND PUBLIC SPACES IN CHARLES DICKENS’S GREAT EXPECTATIONS
Author(s): Ioana NicaSubject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Editura Alma Mater
Keywords: public/private space; identity; house; London; The Marshes
Summary/Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to show the way in which a person/character constructs his/her identity by interacting with other people within certain private spaces and public places. The analysis of spaces in Great Expectations shows the characters, particularly Pip caught between “was” and “is”, “there” and ”here” in a process of becoming by folding and unfolding or by taking up roles, selves as a response to the spaces they inhabit.
Journal: Cultural Perspectives - Journal for Literary and British Cultural Studies in Romania
- Issue Year: 2005
- Issue No: 10
- Page Range: 218-229
- Page Count: 11
- Language: English
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