Publication details
The Ambiguous in Contemporary British Prose
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| Year of publication | 2011 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Does It Really Mean That? Interpreting the Literary Ambiguous |
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| Field | Mass media, audiovision |
| Keywords | ambiguity; contemporary British prose; Jeanette Winterson; Michéle Roberts; Angela Carter; Iris Murdoch; Muriel Spark; Jane Gardam |
| Description | The postmodern age has embraced ambiguity as one of its essential concepts. This paper examines some aspects of ambiguity in two sets of British contemporary novels, roughly distinguished by their realistic or experimental mode, with the aim to show that the postmodern is not necessarily the defining underlying element of the presence of ambiguity in the texts. |