02846oam 2200625 c 450 991095663420332120260102090118.03-657-70495-710.30965/9783657704958(CKB)4100000011352725(nllekb)BRILL9783657704958(MiAaPQ)EBC6539009(Au-PeEL)EBL6539009(OCoLC)1246577485(Brill | Schöningh)9783657704958(Brill | Schöningh)9783657704958(EXLCZ)99410000001135272520260102d2020 uy 0engurun####uuuuatxtrdacontentcrdamediardacarrierAmbiguity in Emily Brontë’s "Wuthering Heights"Lisa Ebert1st ed.PaderbornBrill | Schöningh20201 online resourceBeiträge zur englischen und amerikanischen Literatur393-506-70495-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.Since its publication, Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights has given rise to an unusual plurality of interpretations, leading to the impression that the novel somehow resists interpretation. The author offers a new reading of the novel that takes this effect into account by investigating its reason: ambiguity is a thematic focal point and structural key element of the novel. This study is concerned with the ambiguity of Wuthering Heights which arises through a complex interplay of distinct but interdependent ambiguities of perception, narration, and the narrated world. In particular, it shows how specific ambiguous utterances (e.g. a clash of implicatures and presuppositions) are linked with each other and contribute to the global ambiguity of the text. In this way, not only the function of ambiguity for understanding Wuthering Heights is explored but also the function of Wuthering Heights for understanding ambiguity. The book should thus be of interest not only to Brontë scholars and Victorianists but also to literary scholars and linguists in general.Beiträge zur englischen und amerikanischen Literatur ;39.narrationperceptionVictorianliteraturelinguisticsinterpretationnovelnarrationperceptionVictorianliteraturelinguisticsinterpretationnovel420Ebert Lisaaut1836986MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910956634203321Ambiguity in Emily Brontë's "Wuthering Heights"4415211UNINA