Abstract:Modern fiction has a certain way of achieving "literariness" and "sophistication"; it does so by means of "ambiguity". Being "witty" or "deceitful", to quote William Empson, ambiguity seems to press home the writers" intention of deferring the meaning by making the ontological status of the text as implicit as possible. Ambiguity, therefore, forms a kind of narrative that determines the writer"s style. In James Joyce, however, particularly in the stories of Dubliners, this ambiguity is meant to reach a "myster… Show more
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