Ambiguity in Emily Brontë’s "Wuthering Heights"

2020
ISBN: 978-3-506-70495-5
Verlag: Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh

Buch, Englisch, Band 39, 274 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 514 g

Reihe: Beiträge zur englischen und amerikanischen Literatur

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ebert, Lisa

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Einzelne Autoren: Monographien & Biographien
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturkritik: Hermeneutik und Interpretation

Über Autor(innen)

Lisa Ebert ist Mitarbeiterin am Englischen Seminar der Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen und war Mitglied im Graduiertenkolleg „1808: Ambiguität - Produktion und Rezeption”.