Author: Dennis ChasePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
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The Ambiguity of Innocence: The Turn of the Screw
Author: Dennis ChaseThe Problem of Ambiguity in Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence
Author: John Amos StillwellThe Ambiguity of Innocence in Mark Twain's Novels
Author: Virginia L. BonhamSeven Types of Ambiguity
Author: William EmpsonPublisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 9780811200370
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Examines seven types of ambiguity, providing examples of it in the writings of Shakespeare, Wordsworth, and T.S. Eliot.
Adventures in a Mud Hut
Author: Nigel BarleyPublisher:
ISBN: 9780814908808
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
Describes the misadventures of a novice anthropologist trying to study the culture of the Dowayo people of the Cameroons
Hrafnkel Or the Ambiguities
Author: William Ian MillerPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198793030
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
William Ian Miller presents a close reading of one of the best known of the Icelandic sagas, showing its moral, political, and psychological sophistication. His account of this complex and nuanced saga corrects simplistic readings which have governed interpretation of the saga in the past.
Ambiguous Aggression in German Realism and Beyond
Author: Barbara N. NagelPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1501352725
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 173
Book Description
Our main words defining emotional states suggest that we have clarity about them: expressions like "love," "hatred," "anxiety," or "sorrow" seem clear enough. The reality, however, tends to be more complicated. We are often faced with gestures and utterances that are difficult to interpret; we thus find ourselves wondering about the affective force of what has just been said: "Was that an insult?" "Flirtation?" "Aggression?" Ambiguous Aggression in German Realism and Beyond looks at three interlocking forms of social violence--flirtation, passive aggression, and domestic violence. In order to understand their circulation, it traces their literary-historical genealogy in German realism and modernism--in scenes from Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, Adalbert Stifter, Theodor Storm, Theodor Fontane, Robert Walser, and Franz Kafka, covering a historical period from the middle of the 19th century to the early decades of the 20th century. Reading realist and modernist literature through 21st-century affect theory and vice versa, the analyses collected in this book show the deep literary history of our current cultural predicaments and predilections.
A History of Ambiguity
Author: Anthony Ossa-RichardsonPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691188777
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages :
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Ever since it was first published in 1930, William Empson’s Seven Types of Ambiguity has been perceived as a milestone in literary criticism—far from being an impediment to communication, ambiguity now seemed an index of poetic richness and expressive power. Little, however, has been written on the broader trajectory of Western thought about ambiguity before Empson; as a result, the nature of his innovation has been poorly understood. A History of Ambiguity remedies this omission. Starting with classical grammar and rhetoric, and moving on to moral theology, law, biblical exegesis, German philosophy, and literary criticism, Anthony Ossa-Richardson explores the many ways in which readers and theorists posited, denied, conceptualised, and argued over the existence of multiple meanings in texts between antiquity and the twentieth century. This process took on a variety of interconnected forms, from the Renaissance delight in the ‘elegance’ of ambiguities in Horace, through the extraordinary Catholic claim that Scripture could contain multiple literal—and not just allegorical—senses, to the theory of dramatic irony developed in the nineteenth century, a theory intertwined with discoveries of the double meanings in Greek tragedy. Such narratives are not merely of antiquarian interest: rather, they provide an insight into the foundations of modern criticism, revealing deep resonances between acts of interpretation in disparate eras and contexts. A History of Ambiguity lays bare the long tradition of efforts to liberate language, and even a poet’s intention, from the strictures of a single meaning.
Innocence and Arsenic
Author: Albert BorowitzPublisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Seven Types Of Ambiguity
Author: William EmpsonPublisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1473351464
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.