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The filter of memory in David Copperfield : transpositions, distortions and recreations

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Through this thesis, I will cover the multiple aspects of the filter of memory and analyse how Dickens uses these concepts in the novel. I will dedicate the first part of this thesis to the novel as the embodiment of Dickens’s memories as a Victorian child himself by giving factual elements regarding the historical context, providing biographical elements concerning Dickens’s early life and explaining to what extent this novel actually stands for a work of reference in terms of life in the Victorian society, giving visibility and paying tribute to the victims of Industrial England; then I will tackle the manipulation of events from the past, firstly by illustrating how David’s childhood is idealized under the prism of nostalgia, secondly by presenting the filter of memory as a protective mechanism to repress painful episodes of David’s past and thirdly by analysing the creative dimension brought by the selection, the suppression and the alteration of events which enable the distinctive separation of the narrating adult and the experiencing child; finally I will discuss the duality that implies the filtering of memory: on the one hand giving a different account of the past in order to exaggerate and darken the events; on the other hand altering reality to erase some undesirable parts in order to purify the past.

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Alison Remandet. The filter of memory in David Copperfield : transpositions, distortions and recreations. Education. 2022. ⟨dumas-03792580⟩
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