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Language: en
Pages: 464
Pages: 464
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-02-22 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Ambiguity in the sense of two or more possible meanings is considered to be a distinctive feature of modern art and literature. It characterizes the "open artwo
Language: en
Pages: 318
Pages: 318
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-09-11 - Publisher: Taylor & Francis
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
Language: en
Pages: 337
Pages: 337
Type: BOOK - Published: 2024-10-21 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
As a well-known phenomenon in everyday communication, ambiguity has increasingly become the subject of interdisciplinary research in recent years. However, with
Language: en
Pages: 426
Pages: 426
Ambiguities of War: A Narratological Commentary on Silius Italicus’ Battle of Ticinus (Sil. 4.1-479)
Type: BOOK - Published: 2022-09-19 - Publisher: BRILL
The book lays bare the narrative form of Silius’ text. It focuses on the phenomenon of ambiguity due to the epic’s constant oscillation between fact and fic
Language: en
Pages: 368
Pages: 368
Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-12-18 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Mankind’s constant struggle with physical as well as mental weaknesses is omnipresent in ancient literature: misconduct, wrongdoing, failure and experiences o
