Poetics of a Portrait in “Dombey and Son” by Charles Dickens

The article presents the analyses of double portraits based on contrasts in the novel by Charles Dickens “Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son: Wholesale, Retail and for Exportation”. The author uses classic, scattered and metonymic types of portraits. Contrast-based portraits set the tone, bring to further contrast perception of the characters. Contrast portraiture acts like an anticipation, gives the reader the material for foreknowledge, makes the reader competent for the future realization of the contrast in the plot. The reader becomes aware of the further plot development and the effect of recognition enhances the aesthetic effect. The power of the author's influence and involvement into the world of the novel depends on the ability to depict the characters of the world, their visualization draws the reader into the novel

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  Nadine Boehm-Schnitker, Doris Feldmann•English Studies•2013

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