RE-ENVISIONING ‘BLEAK HOUSE’: A FRESH PERSPECTIVE ON DICKENS'S STYLISTIC TOPOI

Mounir Ben Zid

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The premise of this paper is to re-examine Dickens' Bleak House and reveal that, while considerable thought and lengthy discussions were devoted to highlight the theme of law in Dickens' novel, scant attention has been given to show how the novelist uses stylistic topoi to inject hidden political assumptions in the novel and voice his own ironical conception of law and justice in the Mid-Victorian society. With this end in view, the study suggests to explore Dickens' literary style and the motifs he uses to achieve his goal with a particular focus on imagery, sarcasm and irony.

 

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Dickens, Bleak House, stylistic topoi, imagery, sarcasm

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