Monsters of Affection: Dickens, Eliot, & Bronte on Fatherhood |
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... debt . " For Charles Dickens the “ symbolic debt " was also economic . The ex- aggerated struggle he and his father undertook when both were adults centered on money , a literal representation that the father and son con- tinued to work ...
... debt . " For Charles Dickens the “ symbolic debt " was also economic . The ex- aggerated struggle he and his father undertook when both were adults centered on money , a literal representation that the father and son con- tinued to work ...
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... debt and death , to associate and transmute the figurative , structural , and narrative elements of his own blacking warehouse father - son experience : prison , debt , betrayal , revenge . In " The Convict's Return , " a son remembers ...
... debt and death , to associate and transmute the figurative , structural , and narrative elements of his own blacking warehouse father - son experience : prison , debt , betrayal , revenge . In " The Convict's Return , " a son remembers ...
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... debt he owes his figurative father , the debt he has denied . In this novel's haunting of son by father , Pip attempts to confront that debt , to acknowledge that he owes his second father love in return for his “ fathering . " Yet , as ...
... debt he owes his figurative father , the debt he has denied . In this novel's haunting of son by father , Pip attempts to confront that debt , to acknowledge that he owes his second father love in return for his “ fathering . " Yet , as ...
Contents
Authors of Being | 10 |
A Sort of Father | 65 |
Masters and Mastery | 119 |
Copyright | |
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