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Ambiguity in Charlotte Bronte’s Villette
Engelsk Hardback

Ambiguity in Charlotte Bronte’s Villette

Engelsk Hardback

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Charlotte Brontë’s final novel Villette (1853) is associated with ambiguity because of its open ending: Does M. Paul return to narrator-protagonist Lucy Snowe or is he killed in a storm raging on the Atlantic? Taking its famous ending as a starting point, this study explores Villette as a text in which ambiguity is all-pervasive in various ways. Among these is the narrator’s ambivalent attitude toward herself and others, epitomised in her stylistic idiosyncrasies. The links between ambiguity and doubt are explored through an analysis of Lucy’s signature phrase, “I know not,” expressive of her existential doubts and questioning attitude toward the world. The analysis moreover focuses on the motif of the oracle as a traditionally ambiguous utterance, and explores its relevance in the context of the generic tradition of Villette as a fictional autobiography. Another focus is the interplay of figurative and literal levels of meaning in the allegorical episodes, creating ambiguity.

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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
283
ISBN-13:
9783847111191
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
3847111191
Udg. Dato:
17 feb 2020
Længde:
20mm
Bredde:
160mm
Højde:
237mm
Forlag:
V&R unipress GmbH
Oplagsdato:
17 feb 2020
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