VOL. 63, BOOK 1, PART C, 2025, pp. 297 – 311 Full text (En)
Author: Kristina Yasenova
Affiliation: Paisii Hilendarski University of Plovdiv
Abstract
The text proposes a phenomenological analysis of Oliver Twist’s consciousness and its way of experiencing objects in the world. The objects we are going to pay close attention to are clothes, beds, portraits, and coffins. I have chosen these objects because they occupy a symbolically liminal space between the animate human being and the inanimate, empty human form. They are going to be seen as both substantiating and annihilating the child’s consciousness of time, producing a midway spatiotemporality on the borderline between Leib (a living body with consciousness) and Körper (the body as an ordinary object among other objects).
Key words: objects, consciousness, Dickens, Oliver Twist, phenomenology
