Olivers Twisted: Urban Milieu from Text to Media by Mario Martino

“…This paper focuses on two transpositions of Oliver Twist: Oliver!, by Carol Reed, and the Walt Disney cartoon Oliver & Company, both of which are musicals. …”
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Poverty, Dickens’s Oliver Twist, and J. R. McCulloch by Ayşe Çelikkol

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Dickens, David Lean, and After: Twenty-First-Century Adaptations of Oliver Twist by Chris Louttit

“…The dramatic and aesthetic effectiveness of Lean’s Oliver Twist might be seen, in a sense, as an improvement on the efforts of an inexperienced writer, and it has certainly had a strong effect on the novel’s life on film and television. …”
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Normative Ideology, Transgressive Aesthetics: Depicting and Exploring the Urban Underworld in Oliver Twist (1838), Twist (2003) and Boy Called Twist (2004) by Clémence Folléa

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Dickens in Arabia: Going Astray in Tripoli by Gillian PIGGOTT

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Steel Bubbles: Death, Inexhaustibility, and Dickens’s Idea of the Book in Sketches by Boz, First Series (1836) by Jeffrey Jackson

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“Walls of Words”: Paperscape in Charles Dickens’s Novels by Céline PREST

“…The reader follows David Copperfield, Pip and Oliver Twist as they read the writing on the wall, sometimes their only guide in the city. …”
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Ambivalent Father Figures and the Enigma of Male Identity in Dickens’s Fiction by Max Véga-Ritter

“…It throws light on the way Dickens functioned in his earlier novels ambivalently or irresolutely, but alternately, on two opposite poles of his mind, those of self-identification with the benign—but eventually possibly inadequate—father image in the Pickwick Papers—the second Scrooge—or of a counter identification with its opposite negative image—the Rebels—in Oliver Twist, leaving the question of sex identity open or in a state of conundrum. …”
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