1 / 7

Bleak House

Bleak House : Losing One’s Place – Displacement and Domesticity By: Kevin McLaughlin. Bleak House. Presenter: Roy Chan. Key Vocabularies/Terms . Theme: Home Displacement Domesticity “Self Estranged Subject” Veil Phenomenology. Home in Bleak House. A social form A source of order

gavin
Download Presentation

Bleak House

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Bleak House: Losing One’s Place – Displacement and Domesticity By: Kevin McLaughlin Bleak House Presenter: Roy Chan

  2. Key Vocabularies/Terms Theme: Home • Displacement • Domesticity • “Self Estranged Subject” • Veil • Phenomenology

  3. Home in Bleak House • A social form • A source of order • Esther Summerson is both homeless and a woman. She is displaced from her actual parents, and tries to figure that out at John Jarndyce home

  4. Domesticity - The quality or state of being domestic, domestic character; home or family life; devotion to home; homeliness. A source of order Displacement – the removal of a thing from its place; putting out of place; shifting, dislocation. The removal of someone or something by someone or something else that takes their place Domesticity vs. Displacement

  5. “Self-Estranged” Subject • The recognition of oneself as different or strange.

  6. To cover the person with, or as with, a veil; to conceal or hide the face by means of a veil; to enveil. Veil

  7. Phenomenology – an approach to philosophy that begins with an exploration of phenomena (a conscious experience) “Self-estranged Subject” vs. “Self-Estranged Spirit” Georg Hegel’s Philosophy

More Related