Bildungsroman in Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations and James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
This thesis is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Arts in English, 2021.
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10361-177562023-01-18T21:01:40Z Bildungsroman in Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations and James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Lata, Afrin Sultana Chowdhury, Rukhsana R. Department of English and Humanities, Brac University Realism Social realism Psychological realism Bildungsroman Self-realisation Self-identity Bildungsromans--History and criticism. This thesis is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Arts in English, 2021. Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. Includes bibliographical references (pages 67-70). Bildungsroman novels also known as “coming- of- age” novels deal with subjectivity and the relationship between the self and society. A bildungsroman novel mainly conveys the narrative of a person's cognitive development within the perspective of a predetermined social structure. In the narratives, the character's advancement is represented both as an employment to existence and an investigation for reasonable life within the community. Charles Dickens (1812-1870) and James Joyce (1882-1941) have used bildungsroman in their novels, Great Expectations and A Portrait of an Artistas a Young Man, respectively this thesis aims to focus on their different approaches. Since the novels are written in different periods, the style, techniques and writing devices are also different. The main focus of the thesis is to analyse the social as well as the psychological state of the protagonists. The bildungsroman traces the social and psychological reality of the protagonists from childhood to adulthood. The settings, characters and plots in these two novels are centered around society’s middle and lower classes. In Great Expectations, we can see an uneven social class structure, contrast between rural and urban England, immorality of the high class, flaw of the judicial system, uneven educational opportunities and quality of the Victorian era. Pip’s journey of finding himself from childhood to adulthood will critically be analised through the lens of social realism in this thesis. In addition, A portrait of the Artist as a Young Man shows us the view of an Irish Catholic society, where Stephen, in search of his life’s anchor, finally determines to turn away from priesthood towards art. Stephen’s journey of finding himself from childhood to adulthood will be critically analyzed through the lens of psychological realism in this thesis. Therefore, the main focus of this thesis will be to show how the selected bildungsroman novels of Dickens and Joyce use realism and psychological realism to portray the life journey of Pip and Stephen from childhood to adulthood. Afrin Sultana Lata B.A. in English 2023-01-18T08:34:46Z 2023-01-18T08:34:46Z 2021 2021 Thesis ID: 16103022 http://hdl.handle.net/10361/17756 en_US Brac University theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. 70 Pages application/pdf Brac University |
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This thesis is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Arts in English, 2021. |
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Bildungsroman in Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations and James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man |
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