A corpus-based approach to Charles Dickens’s alleged influence on Benito Pérez Galdós through the use of their characters’ body language
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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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