Humour in Dickens’ Oliver Twist

A strategy to reveal the corruption in Victorian era

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ID22250003
AuthorsFithriyah Inda Nur Abida (0000-0002-7673-9659, Universitas Negeri Surabaya, corresponding author), Fahri Fahri (0000-0001-6725-4310, Universitas Negeri Surabaya), Diana Budi Darma (0000-0002-2169-3710, Universitas Negeri Surabaya, corresponding author)
Year2021
Volume6
Pages120-128
Publication date2021-12-12
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLinguistics and Culture Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2690-103X • E-ISSN: 2690-103X
PublisherScientific and Literature Open Access Publishing (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.21744/lingcure.v6ns2.1982
OpenAlexW4200150423
LanguageDE
References cited9

This paper attempts to investigate the use of humour in revealing the idea of corruption in Dickens’ novel Oliver Twist. Corruption was a huge problem in London in the 1830s when Dickens was writing. Oliver Twist was one of his best novels that portrayed how corruption lived. Through this novel, he also wanted to show how social and cultural at that time created corrupt behavior in the society. The art of humour created by Dickens is an interesting strategy to deliver the message of corruption. By understanding the art of humour that consists of idiomatic expression, social and cultural context, would help the translator to capture a distinctive creative process that incorporates the linguistic structures and cultural environment of the target language while at the same time remaining as faithful as possible to the original

Aesthetics · Art · Language change · Literature · Sociology · Computer Science · History · Humor Studies and Applications · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Migration, Policy, and Dickens Studies

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