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Does it really mean that? : interpreting the literary ambiguous / edited by Kathleen Dubs and Janka Kaščáková.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ambiguity in literature.
- English literature--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (253 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New Castle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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, unc...
- Contents:
- pt. 1. Medieval literature
- pt. 2. British literature
- pt. 3. American literature
- pt. 4. Theoretical applications.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-14205-8
- 1-4438-2749-5
- 9786613142054
- OCLC:
- 820123301
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