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Strategies of Ambiguity
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 volume contributes to overcoming this alternative by focusing on strategies of ambiguity (and the strategic avoidance of ambiguity) both at the production and the reception end of communication. The authors examine ways in which speakers and hearers may use ambiguous words, structures, references, and situations to pursue communicative ends. For example, the question is asked what it actually means when a ...
The Dance of Life
The Dance of LIfe is a collection of 15 theme-based autobiographical essays, two short stories, seven poems, and 22 photographs in which various places, events and characters that have played a role the author’s life appear in multiple contexts. From these pieces, readers are invited to create their own composite picture of the person who calls herself Pat Piety. The author also hopes these word-association exercises in memory will prompt readers to recall significant memories in their own lives.
Home Sweet Home & Other Dangerous Places
Home Sweet Home & Other Dangerous Places illustrates the theme that no matter where we as individuals are, we are not safe. We are not safe in the places we call home, at work, in a effort to ease our loneliness, nor in our minds. The stories in this collection range from a slightly feeble minded truck driver trying to win the affection of the woman behind the truck stop's cash register to the terrifying ordeal a young woman may or may not have experienced. Julie Failla Earhart's stories blend a mixture of betrayal, mental illness, innocence, and crime humans commit against each other.
Ambiguity and Narratology
As a well-known phenomenon in everyday communication, ambiguity has increasingly become the subject of interdisciplinary research in recent years. However, within this context, it has been observed that words or expressions situated within the artistic framework of storytelling have not yet been at the centre of research interest. This book aims to bridge this gap by examining the phenomenon of ambiguity from the perspective of narratology – understood as a general theory of narration and narrative communication. The volume pursues two goals: Firstly, it seeks to demonstrate that the interdisciplinary combination of linguistics, cultural history and narratology enriches the field of litera...
Anything But Ordinary
Compilation of memories and stories from conflicts in the Middle East written by alumni and faculty of the American Community School at Beirut.
Crossing Boundaries in Early Modern England
Between 1500 and 1700, eight very different English translations of Kempis's Imitatio were published in about 70 editions, crossing boundaries of language, confessional affiliation, and literary genre. This study explores the ways in which biblicism and inwardness, so typical of the Latin original work, are subject to creative transformations by the English translators. Thus, the translations reflect and even influence more general tendencies in the wider corpus of early modern English literature, for example in the works of George Herbert, John Bunyan, and early English Bible translations. Florian Kubsch worked as a researcher at the Department of English at the Eberhard Karls Universitaet Tuebingen, Germany.
Ambiguities of War: A Narratological Commentary on Silius Italicus’ Battle of Ticinus (Sil. 4.1-479)
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 fiction, highlighting Roman triumph in defeat and defeat through triumph.
Ambiguity in Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights
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.
Descendants of Christian Andereck
Descendants of Christian Andereck, Swiss immigrant, Revolutionary War Hero. Over three hundred years of family genealogy. Family names are Andereck, Andrick, Andricks, Andrix and collateral lines.
Hair Loss and Restoration
This new edition of an established resource provides an extensive look at the practical management, both medical and surgical, of all forms of hair loss. Proper examination of the patient with hair loss is discussed in depth, as is androgenetic alopecia, the most common cause of hair loss. The autoimmune disease alopecia areata is examined comprehensively, including its pathogenesis, clinical features, differential diagnosis, and treatment. This edition also covers the latest developments in the diagnosis and treatment of the disease, along with hair restoration surgery. This compact and easy-to-read book remains a valuable resource for professional training and use. ‘This book... has added value to my aesthetic practice and ... allowed me to be better for my patients’ —PMFA, of the second edition Key Features: Presents an authoritative guide for diagnosis and treatment Offers the dermatologist and plastic surgeon a comprehensive survey of the possible options and results Remains the established leader in the topic
