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Ambiguity in Emily Brontë's "Wuthering Heights" / Lisa Ebert



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Autore: Ebert Lisa Visualizza persona
Titolo: Ambiguity in Emily Brontë's "Wuthering Heights" / Lisa Ebert Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Paderborn, : Brill | Schöningh, 2020
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
Disciplina: 420
Soggetto topico: narration
perception
Victorian
literature
linguistics
interpretation
novel
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Ambiguity in Emily Brontë's "Wuthering Heights"  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 3-657-70495-7
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910810802703321
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Serie: Beiträge zur englischen und amerikanischen Literatur ; ; 39.