THE ECHO CHAMBERS OF A CHILD’S TEMPORALITY: DICKENS’S GREAT EXPECTATIONS
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2026-05-22
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Plovdiv University Press
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While paying attention to the soundscapes Charles Dickens builds in Great Expectations, I offer phenomenological interpretations of them, bearing in mind the child’s viewpoint and presence. The traditional phenomenological gaze, in this case, is going to be replaced with a phenomenological “ear”. Adopting such an analytical direction, I would argue that temporality could be polymorphous and polyphonous, and that the sonorous time possesses the power of morphing the child’s identity into diverse forms and directions.
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Great Expectations, sonorous time, Dickens, Jean-Luc Nancy, the child’s consciousness