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1. dehesa.unex.es › 10662/20330/4 › ijes_324051Revisiting the dickensian echo of the HBO TV series The Wire

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   This article analyzes the alleged Dickensian echo of the highly-acclaimed TV series The Wire (2002-2008). The Wire‘s well-known literary ambitions have frequently been endorsed by comparison of the series to literary genres, including the Greek tragedy (McMillan, 2009:

2. www.researchgate.net › publication › 334423936Revisiting the Dickensian echo of the HBO TV series The Wire:

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   Jun 30, 2019 · This article analyzes the alleged Dickensian echo of the highly-acclaimed HBO TV series The Wire. Charles Dickens is probably the literary author to whom the series has most frequently been...

3. pdfs.semanticscholar.org › f8e9 › 6fd5cb1e1b8aa3a4eDickensian Realism in The Wire - pdfs.semanticscholar.org

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   than placing Dickens in a simple, static category – realist or non-realist – the series is attuned to the ways in which Dickens’s realism balances the mundane, unromantic aspects of life with the absurdities we so often overlook.

4. www.semanticscholar.org › paper › Dickensian-Realism[PDF] Dickensian Realism in The Wire | Semantic Scholar

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   Jun 1, 2020 · In the fifth season of the HBO series The Wire (2002–08), James Whiting, the fictional managing editor of the Baltimore Sun, decides that his staff needs to explore not only the murders perpetrated by a serial killer preying on the city’s homeless population but also ‘the Dickensian aspect of the homeless.

5. www.academia.edu › 40380112 › Wiring_The_Wire_Trans(PDF) 'Wiring' The Wire: Transtextual layers and tragic ...

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   This article deals with the different transtextual layers in The Wire, from its obvious connections with cop shows, police procedurals or the hard-boiled detective novel, to its deeper associations with melodrama, going through the more or less veiled references to Dickens, the Greek tragedy, gangster films, westerns or Edgar Allan Poe.

   • Author: Jesús Ángel González

6. www.semanticscholar.org › paper › Revisiting-theRevisiting the Dickensian echo of the HBO TV series The Wire:

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   Jun 30, 2019 · The analysis is intended to throw new light on the Dickensian ambience of The Wire, which seems to be different than previous critical appreciations of the series have suggested. This article analyzes the alleged Dickensian echo of the highly-acclaimed HBO TV series The Wire.

7. www.jstor.org › stable › 23131423"THE GAME IS THE GAME": TAUTOLOGY AND ALLEGORY IN "THE WIRE"

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   In the world of The Wire, by contrast, leaving the game is less abstractly rational and individualistic because of family and peer pressure, employers' suspicion about snitches, and the simple difficulty of finding any other paying work.