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THE DISCURSIVE REPRESENTATION OF PROLETARIAT SUBJECTIVITY A CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF THE WORKING CLASS IN HARD TIMES AND OLIVER TWIST

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http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/glr.2022(VII-II).42      10.31703/glr.2022(VII-II).42      Published : Jun 2022

The Discursive Representation of Proletariat Subjectivity: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Working Class in Hard Times, and Oliver Twist

Abstract

    This research is a social study of poverty and the way Charles Dickens's Hard Times (1992), and Oliver Twist (2003) specifically addressed the poor. This study will focus on socially disadvantaged members of Victorian society, including poor children and underprivileged adults. This critical analysis of Dickens' selected novels will demonstrate that Dickens was a realist and naturalist writer in some way; As a result, the subject of this research is the traces of bourgeois exploitation of the poor and working class through various means, most notably through language in his social novels in relation to Marxism. This study will also use Norman Fairclough three-dimensional model of critical discourse analysis. This research concludes the analysis by presenting the gap between the higher class and lower class and its impact on the lower class.

    Discourse Analysis, Representation, Proletariat, Oliver TwistHard Times,

    (1) Saba Siddique
    Visiting Faculty, Department of English, Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan, KP, Pakistan.
    (2) Nazish
    Lecturer, Department of English, Women University, Mardan, KP, Pakistan.
    (3) Irfan Ullah
    Assistant Professor, Department of English, Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan, KP, Pakistan.
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APA

    APA : Siddique, S., Nazish., & Ullah, I. (2022). The Discursive Representation of Proletariat Subjectivity: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Working Class in Hard Times, and Oliver Twist. Global Language Review, VII(II), 509-519. https://doi.org/10.31703/glr.2022(VII-II).42

CHICAGO

    CHICAGO : Siddique, Saba, Nazish, and Irfan Ullah. 2022. "The Discursive Representation of Proletariat Subjectivity: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Working Class in Hard Times, and Oliver Twist." Global Language Review, VII (II): 509-519 doi: 10.31703/glr.2022(VII-II).42

HARVARD

    HARVARD : SIDDIQUE, S., NAZISH. & ULLAH, I. 2022. The Discursive Representation of Proletariat Subjectivity: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Working Class in Hard Times, and Oliver Twist. Global Language Review, VII, 509-519.

MHRA

    MHRA : Siddique, Saba, Nazish, and Irfan Ullah. 2022. "The Discursive Representation of Proletariat Subjectivity: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Working Class in Hard Times, and Oliver Twist." Global Language Review, VII: 509-519

MLA

    MLA : Siddique, Saba, Nazish, and Irfan Ullah. "The Discursive Representation of Proletariat Subjectivity: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Working Class in Hard Times, and Oliver Twist." Global Language Review, VII.II (2022): 509-519 Print.

OXFORD

    OXFORD : Siddique, Saba, Nazish, , and Ullah, Irfan (2022), "The Discursive Representation of Proletariat Subjectivity: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Working Class in Hard Times, and Oliver Twist", Global Language Review, VII (II), 509-519

TURABIAN

    TURABIAN : Siddique, Saba, Nazish, and Irfan Ullah. "The Discursive Representation of Proletariat Subjectivity: A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Working Class in Hard Times, and Oliver Twist." Global Language Review VII, no. II (2022): 509-519. https://doi.org/10.31703/glr.2022(VII-II).42