Fact and Taste
Hard Times is an example of Dickens’s desire to create a narrative hybrid, composed – as it is – of different literary genres. Thomas Gradgrind and Mr. Sleary’s use of language as an expression of their frame of mind (in Mikhail Bakhtin’s terminology, their “ideologeme”) embodies their adherence...
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| Language: | English |
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Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
2015-12-01
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| Series: | English Literature |
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| Online Access: | http://doi.org/10.14277/2420-823X/EL-2-2-15-4 |