Resurrection as Bakhtinian Metamorphosis - Historicizing Education in David Copperfield

Resurrection as Bakhtinian Metamorphosis

  This paper explores Dickens"s David Copperfield with the perspective of Bakhtinian metamorphosis. In analyzing the text, this paper depicts two different types of metamorphoses depending on the direction: first, transmogrification, a change from the position of glory down to a social death, second, resurrection, a returning change from such a social death back to the position. With interests, the significant episodes for the metamorphoses are created in relation to education of England. As the biographical work of Dickens, David Copperfield reveals the novelist"s being separated from his family at the age of ten, due to his father"s debt, and labor in a factory until he made a great success in writings. This paper portrays how such personal aspects of Dickens could be employed throughout the text in reviewing it with Bakhtin"s dialogic analysis.