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Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover, xvi + 295 pages, NOT ex-library. Gentle handling wear, book is clean and bright with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Issued without a dust jacket. -- This study examines how the prison is represented and narrated across three distinct but interc…onnected bodies of work: the mature novels of Charles Dickens, 20th-century prison fiction, and prison films. The Dickens analysis centres on Little Dorrit, A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations, investigating how narrative form shapes the reader's understanding of incarceration and its effects on individuals. The book's core argument concerns the relationship between formal narrative devices and ideology, exploring how choices of perspective, voice and structure determine the ways imprisonment is communicated to audiences who have not themselves been incarcerated. The scope extends beyond literary analysis of Dickens to trace the prison's evolving representation through 20th-century fiction and cinema, surveying carceral institutions in both Britain and America. This comparative framework allows the study to identify continuities and shifts in how narratives construct the experience of confinement, the figure of the prisoner, and the moral and political meanings attached to punishment across different media and historical periods. The author, a narratologist based at the University of Freiburg, brings a strongly analytical method to the material, combining close formal reading with attention to the cultural and political contexts that shape prison narratives. The work remains pertinent to ongoing scholarly and public debates about incarceration, prison reform, and the role that cultural representation plays in shaping attitudes toward punishment and confinement.
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Gebunden. Zustand: New. Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. KlappentextThis book investigates the ways in which Charles Dickens s mature fiction, prison novels of the twentieth century, and prison films narrate the prison. To begin with, this study illustrates how fict…ional narratives occasionall.
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Narrating the Prison | Role and Representation in Charles Dickens' Novels, Twentieth-Century Fiction, and Film | Jan Alber | Buch | Gebunden | Englisch | 2007 | Cambria Press | EAN 9781934043608 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter…: preigu Print on Demand.
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Buch. Zustand: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book investigates the ways in which Charles Dickens's mature fiction, prison novels of the twentieth century, and prison films narrate the prison. To begin with, this study illustrates how fictional narratives occasionally depart from the re…alities of prison life, and interprets these narrations of the prison against the foil of historical analyses of the experience of imprisonment in Britain and America. Second, this book addresses the significance of prison metaphors in novels and films, and uses them as starting points for new interpretations of the narratives of its corpus. Finally, this study investigates the ideological underpinnings of prison narratives by addressing the question of whether they generate cultural understandings of the legitimacy or illegitimacy of the prison.While Dickens's mature fiction primarily represents the prison experience in terms of the unjust suffering of many sympathetic inmates, prison narratives of the twentieth century tend to focus on one newcomer who is sent to prison because he committed a trivial crime and then suffers under a brutal system. And while the fate of this unique character is represented as being terrible and unjust, the attitude towards the mass of ordinary prisoners is complicit with the common view that 'real' criminals have to be imprisoned. Such prison narratives invite us to sympathize with the quasi-innocent prisoner-hero but do not allow us to empathize with the 'deviant' rest of the prison population and thus implicitly sanction the existence of prisons.These delimitations are linked to wider cultural demarcations: the newcomer is typically a member of the white, male, and heterosexual middle class, and has to go through a process of symbolic 'feminization' in prison that threatens his masculinity (violent and sadistic guards, 'homosexual' rapes and time in the 'hole' normally play an important role). The ill-treatment of this prisoner-hero is then usually countered by means of his escape so that the manliness of our hero and, by extension, the phallic power of the white middle class are restored. Such narratives do not address the actual situation in British and American prisons. Rather, they primarily present us with stories about the unjust victimization of 'innocent' members of the white and heterosexual middle class, and they additionally code coloured and homosexual inmates as 'real' criminals who belong where they are.Furthermore, Dickens's mature fiction focuses on 'negative' metaphors of imprisonment that describe the prison as a tomb, a cage, or in terms of hell. By means of these metaphors, which highlight the inmates' agony, Dickens condemns the prison system as such. Twentieth-century narratives, on the other hand, only critique discipline-based institutions but argue in favour of rehabilitative penal styles. More specifically, they describe the former by using 'negative' metaphors and the latter through positive ones that invite us to see the prison as a womb, a matrix of spiritual rebirth, a catalyst of intense friendship or as an 'academy'. Prison narratives of the twentieth century suggest that society primarily needs such reformative prisons for coloured and homosexual inmates.
