No Sisters, No Brother, No Man: “The Sisters” and Joyce’s Gnomonics
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...
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Petra Christian University
2012-01-01
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| Series: | K@ta: A Biannual Publication on the Study of Language and Literature |
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| Online Access: | http://puslit2.petra.ac.id/ejournal/index.php/ing/article/view/18657 |