Does It Really Mean That? Interpreting the Literary Ambiguous

Does It Really Mean That? Interpreting the Literary Ambiguous
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Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages : 255
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ISBN-10 : 9781443827492
ISBN-13 : 1443827495
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Download or read book Does It Really Mean That? Interpreting the Literary Ambiguous written by Janka Kaščáková and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2011-01-18 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: However disconnected the essays in the volume might appear to be at first glance, the unifying factor is the very notion of ambiguity—which is one of the essential features of the postmodern age: how it can be defined as opposed to what it means or is, where it can be found, to what purposes it can be put, including questions of whether it is a positive or negative factor. But this, of course, is not a new phenomenon. Writers have always depended on equivocation, multiplicity of meaning, uncertainty of meaning—deliberate mystification one might say. Language itself is the base of ambiguity not only in literature but in everyday public discourse. Thus the papers in the volume should appeal not only to scholars working in the fields of modern or postmodern literature, but those who see the importance of ambiguity in the earlier texts, and perhaps their influences in later writing. Finally the essays included here not only provide specific analyses and proposed solutions for specific works or authors they also open the reader to other appearances of ambiguity, often not simply in literature or critical theory, but in the kinds of social issues the literary works deals with.


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