CONTENTS

DICKENS BETWEEN IRONY AND REALISM ..1 - Irony .1 - Realism 4 - Dickenss Realism 6 - Intentions . 8 A LENSE FOR THE VICTORIAN SOCIETY .12 - Bleak House -Gothic Novel 14 -The Social Realism ...20 - David Copperfield - Psychoanalytic Point of View 22 - Irony Means of Representation Used by the Author . 25 - The Narrator as the Object of Irony 30

THE MYTH OF THE MATURE CHILD .33 - Oliver Twist .33 - A Tale of Two Cities 40 - Little Dorritt .48 - The Motive of Prison 50 - The Social Realism 52 - The Distinction Between Tragedy and Melodrama . 54

A RADICAL CHANGE IN NARRATION . 59 - Great Expectations - Phenomenological Realism .. 60 - Unreliable Narrator . 62 - The Ironic Discrepancy at all the Levels of Perception .. 65

CONCLUSION .. 72 - Irony - Verbal Irony 72 - Structural Irony ..72 - Situational Irony ..72 - Verbal Irony .72 - Realism . 73 - Dickenss Realism in the Context of the Victorian Realism ... 73 - The Heroes and Heroines of Dickens .74 - The Symbolism of Dickens 76

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