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Jan 28, 2019 · Dickens scholars define this work as a benchmark of the Christmas story genre, noting also that it contains elements of the poetics of vision and the Gothic narrative, but ignoring the author’s hints in the title.
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The title conjures the familiar Christmas tradition of singing round the fireplace or through the streets from door to door, a seasonal activity that joins rich and poor together and echoes the political theme of the story. Many features of the story also reinforce its musical quality.
During the 15th century, the carol continued as a popular religious song, but it also developed as art music and as a literary form. Musically, it is the most important English forme fixe (“fixed form”), comparable to the French rondeau , virelai , and ballade .
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Full Title: A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas. When Written: September to December, 1843 Where Written: Manchester and London When Published: 19 December 1843 Literary Period: Victorian Era Genre: Social Commentary, Ghost Story Setting: London
Oct 8, 2020 · The lyrics of Christmas carols and songs alike situate the listener within the narratives of the season, whether the Christian story of Jesus’ birth or secular stories of seasonal experience, gifts, and romance. In this way, the core repertory of popular Christmas music contains a measure of variety.
Both ‘Scrooge’ and ‘Bah! Humbug’ are known to people who have never read Dickens’s book, or even seen one of the countless film, TV, and theatre adaptations. But what is A Christmas Carol really about, and is there more to this tale of charity and goodwill than meets the eye?
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A Christmas Carol is a novella by Charles Dickens. It tells the story of Ebenezer Scrooge, a miserly old man who is visited by ghosts around Christmas time. Listen to a podcast about the plot...
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