Análisis de la influencia de Charles Dickens en el estilo de Benito Pérez Galdós a través del lenguaje gestual de sus personajes: un estudio de corpus

  1. Guadalupe Nieto Caballero
Journal:
Dicenda: Estudios de lengua y literatura españolas

ISSN: 0212-2952,  1988-2556

Year of publication: 2019

Issue: 37

Pages: 321-341

Type: Article

DOI: 10.5209/DICE.65006 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openOpen access editor

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Abstract

In this article, Charles Dickens’s alleged influence on Benito Pérez Galdós’s style is analysed from a corpus-stylistic point of view. The study has concentrated on body language. More specifically, a series of clusters employed by both authors containing one of the following four body parts have been scrutinised: eye, hand, head and shoulder. As will be shown, both authors make an almost analogous use of similar clusters to build their fictive universes, which will help to demonstrate that Dickens’s influence in Galdós goes well beyond the impressionistic references traditionally discussed, having a purely stylistic basis hitherto underexplored

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