Strategies of ambiguity / / edited by Matthias Bauer and Angelika Zirker.

"There has been a growing awareness that ambiguity is not just a necessary evil of the language system resulting, for instance, from its need for economy, or, by contrast, a blessing that allows writers to involve readers in endless games of assigning meaning to a literary text. The present vol...

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Superior document:Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature
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Place / Publishing House:New York, New York : : Routledge,, 2023.
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Routledge studies in twentieth-century literature.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiv, 358 pages) :; illustrations.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Strategy Meets Ambiguity Matthias Bauer and Angelika ZirkerI.
  • Textual StrategiesEnduring AmbiguityVeronika Ehrich
  • The (Strategic) Ambiguity of Poem Titles Matthias Bauer and Martina Bross
  • The Strategic Use of Ambiguous Images in Multisemiotic Textures Nicolas Potysch-- Radical Text Theory and Textual Ambiguity: With Two Analyses of Dadaist Anti-Text Strategies Joachim Knape
  • The Case of Epistemic Ambiguity and Its Strategic Production: Connecting Text and CognitionFlorian Rohmann, Lisa Ebert, Elias-Jason Güthlein and Carolin Munderich-- Political Ambivalence and Dramatic Ambiguity: Bertolt Brecht's Lehrstück Die Maßnahme (1930/31)Sebastian Meixner
  • II. Productive Perception(Non)Strategic Production Planning and Ambiguity: Experimental EvidenceBettina Remmele, Sophia Schopper, Robin Hörnig and Susanne Winkler
  • Reading Aloud Strategic Ambiguities in Poetic TextsDavid Fishelov-- Does Reanalysis Need Ambiguity?Ulrich DetgesAre Hearer Strategies Strategic? Relevance Theory and the Strategicness of Hearer Action in Everyday Language and Language ChangeGesa Schole and Carolin Munderich-- Ambiguation as Rhetorical Strategy in Sermo 38 by Maurice of SullyNikolai Kohler and Mirjam Sigmund-- "To Define Is to Distrust": Intertextual Ambiguity in Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy and James Joyce's Ulysses-- Leona TokerSacred Drama, the Law, and Ambiguities of Form in Nineteenth-Century EnglandJan-Melissa Schramm-- Annotating Ambiguity across Disciplines: The Tübingen Interdisciplinary Corpus of Ambiguity Phenomena (TInCAP)Jutta Hartmann, Lisa Ebert, Gesa Schole, Wiltrud Wagner and Susanne Winkler.