VOL. 62, BOOK 1, PART C, 2024, pp. 240 – 252 Full text (En)
Author: Kristina Yasenova
Affiliation: Paisii Hilendarski University of Plovdiv
Abstract
In the present paper, I will analyse Dickens’s novel Little Dorrit while focusing on the child’s consciousness of time. The main critical paradigm to be employed is Schutz’s phenomenology of social action, which is to be modified into a phenomenology of the literary social action. Such an analysis, which is not divorced from the frame within which the different social actions take place (namely, a literary work that presupposes indirect procedures of the consciousness, and a double removal from the authenticity of events), could bring us a little bit closer to the purpose of the current study: the understanding of how the child’s consciousness of time functions within Dickens’s novel.
Key words: childhood, phenomenology of social action, Dickens, Alfred Schutz, Little Dorrit
