Conscience as Purgatory:

• 발행기관: 한국영미어문학회
• 저자명: Neil Watson
• 간행물 정보: 『영미어문학』영미어문학 제124호, 119~133쪽, 전체 15쪽
• 주제분류: 어문학 > 영어와문학
• 파일형태: PDF
• 발행일자: 2017.03.30

영문 초록

Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations is one of those classic works of literature which stimulates a tradition of criticism that is as creative and as thought provoking, at times, as the novel itself. However, within the current epoch, this creativity is often negated by poststructural frameworks that foreclose other readings, predeterminately, through the totalizing effects of their approach. Peter Brooks’ reading of Great Expectations, is one such example, I will argue; although this is not the essay’s primary purpose: it will offer a new reading of a work of 19th century literature which has already been extensively, investigated, from a familiar perspective, class-based guilt; nonetheless, it will illuminate the plot trajectory to a greater extent by tapping into the figurative language of the narrative, revealing the motivations of, centrally, the protagonist within the world he inhabits.

목차

1. Introduction

2. The Dead: Pips Macabre Encounters with the Projected Other

3. Conscience as Purgatory: Pip’s Metaphorical Manifestation of Class-Based Guilt

4. Conclusion

Works Cited

키워드

purgatory conscience death figurative mobility communication class guilt