Ambiguity in Emily Brontë’s “Wuthering Heights”
By (author) Lisa Ebert
Paperback (Published)
(September 2020)
ISBN: 9783506704955
6.1 x 9.25 inches
Price: $152.00
In stock
Since its publication, Emily Bronte’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 Bronte scholars and Victorianists but also to literary scholars and linguists in general.
- By (author) Lisa Ebert
Other Titles in this Series
Empirical Form and Religious Function
Apparition Narratives of the Early English Enlightenment
Volume 38
Similar Books
Ars Prophetica
Theology in the Poetry of Twentieth-Century Hebrew Poets Avraham Halfi, Shin Shalom, Amir Gilboa, and T. Carmi
Cahiers de littérature française
Les Métamorphoses du texte. Enjeux intertextuels et transpositions visuelles
Volume 25
Des mots aux actes
Traduction épistémique et littéraire. Nouvelles tendances en histoire et didactique
Volume 15
European Drama and Performance Studies
Dramatisations politiques. Théâtre, politique et idéologie au XIXe siècle (1806-1914)
Volume 27
LiCArC
Trauma et création artistique : l’engagement des artistes arabes dans des dynamiques de résiliences
Volume 14
