Narrating the Prison:  Role and Representation in Charles Dickens' Novels, Twentieth-Century Fiction, and Film
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Chapter Four: The Experience of Imprisonment in Prison Narratives of the Twentieth Century

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Critical Counter-Discourse or Pro-Prison Propaganda

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Narrating Prisoners and Prison Settings in Novels and Films

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The Prison Population in Fictional Prison Narratives

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Prison Settings in Novels and Films

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The Representation of Minds and Bodies in “The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner” and its Film Version

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Inmate Interiority in “Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption”

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The Prison as a Testing Ground for Masculinity: The Process of Becoming an Insider

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The Monotonous Routine Cycle of Traditional Disciplinary Prisons

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Prison Violence and ‘Homosexual’ Rape as Forms of Symbolic ‘Feminization’

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The Prisoner as ‘Abject’—The Madness of the ‘Hole’

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The Guards or the ‘Other’ Prisoners

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Chapter Five: Prison Metaphors in Novels and Films of the Twentieth Century

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‘Positive’ and ‘Negative’ Metaphors of Imprisonment

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The Prison as Womb, Tomb, and Homosocial Club

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Forms of Rehabilitation and Positive Prison Images

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