Great Expectations as a Pre-Postmodern Rewriting of The Odyssey? by Alain Jumeau

“…And there have been, indeed, modern rewritings of Dickens’s novels. Great Expectations is a case in point. Yet this literary game did not really start in the postmodern age and I would like to argue here that Great Expectations—written many decades before Joyce’s Ulysses—might be read as a rewriting of The Odyssey. …”
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From Dickens’s Theatrical Performance to Contemporary post Dickensian Narrative and Artistic Performance (Acker, Ackroyd, Waters and Rushdie) by Georges Letissier

“…With Dickens, who in this respect is very much in the Sternean-Shandian vein, theatrical performance is both inside the text (e.g. the parodic staging of Hamlet in Great Expectations) and outside the text, when dramatized versions of his novels are specially written to be acted out. …”
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Dickens : entre système organique et hémorragie textuelle by Nathalie Jaëck

“…The text leaves way to its own contradiction, it undoes and destabilises its own paradigms, and questions its own realist literary stance, through strategies of interruption, digressions and diversions, until the dissident text actually competes with the official one, notably in Great Expectations and Bleak House.…”
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Dickens Today by Marianne Camus

“…It is based mainly on Our Mutual Friend and Little Dorrit, but calls on to Great Expectations and The Old Curiosity Shop too. The manifestations of the unchallenged rule of money are examined like, among others, the collusion between the political and the financial worlds, nepotism, the get-rich-quick syndrome or the ostentatious exhibition of wealth. …”
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A New Paradigm in Cardiac Regeneration: The Mesenchymal Stem Cell Secretome by Clara Gallina, Valentina Turinetto, Claudia Giachino

“…In the cardiovascular disease (CVD) field, MSCs-based therapy is the subject of great expectations. Its therapeutic potential has been already shown in several preclinical models and both the safety and efficacy of MSCs-based therapy are being evaluated in humans. …”
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« I am the Resurrection and the Life » : Sydney Carton, ou les modalités du retour d’une figure familière dans A Tale of Two Cities by Isabelle Hervouet-Farrar

“…In that, Sydney Carton reminds one of Arthur Clennam (Little Dorrit), and announces the advent of later characters such as Pip (Great Expectations) and Eugene Wrayburn (Our Mutual Friend).…”
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Portraits de Résistantes (1847-1875) : la femme face au système patriarcal dans quelques romans victoriens by Jacqueline Fromonot

“…Yet, some novelists stage dramatic forms of frontal attack and resistance, in which women choose heroic postures by emphatically rejecting the male-dominated world, like Dickens’s Estella in Great Expectations. Greatly influenced by the sensational genre, Trollope, on his part, creates a wilful character resisting her father in The Way We Live Now. …”
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