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Strategies of Ambiguity in Ancient Literature (Hardcover)
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Strategies of Ambiguity in Ancient Literature (Hardcover)
Series: Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes
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Ambiguity in the sense of two or more possible meanings is
considered to be a distinctive feature of modern art and
literature. It characterizes the "open artwork" (Eco) and is
generated by "disruptive tactics" (Wellershoff) and strategies to
engender uncertainty. While ambiguity is seen as a "paradigm of
modernity" (Bode), there is skepticism regarding its use in the
pre-modern era. Older studies were dominated by the conviction that
there was a lack of ambiguity in pre-modernity because, according
to the rules of the "old rhetoric", ambiguity was seen as an
avoidable error (vitium) and a violation of the dictate of clarity
(perspicuitas). The aim of the volume is to re-examine the putative
"absence of ambiguity" in the pre-modern era. Is it not possible to
find clear examples of deliberately employed (intended) ambiguity
in antiquity? Are the oracles and riddles, the Palinode of
Stesichoros and Socrates (Phaedrus), the dissoi logoi of rhetoric,
the ambiguities of the tragedies all exceptions or do they not
indicate a distinct interest in the artistic use of ambiguity? The
presentations of the conference, which will include scholars from
various philologies, will combine a recourse to theoretical
concepts of intended ambiguity with exemplary analyses from the
field of pre-modern art and literature.
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