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Ambiguity as Aesthetic Strategy: Edgar Allan Poe's Ambitions for the American Short Story

Ambiguity as Aesthetic Strategy: Edgar Allan Poe's Ambitions for the American Short Story

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Ambiguity as Aesthetic Strategy: Edgar Allan Poe's Ambitions for the American Short Story

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Ambiguity as Aesthetic Strategy: Edgar Allan Poe's Ambitions for the American Short Story

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Ypsilanti: Eastern Michigan University

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Journal of narrative theory, 2018-06, Vol.48 (2), p.164-193

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English

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Ypsilanti: Eastern Michigan University

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A visualization of this world model should be something like this:Since the world of Ligeia depends on the narrator's mental faculties for its existence, it constitutes a subordinate level of ontological existence.[...]ambiguity intensifies the readers' engagement with the text by exacting greater demand on their analytical attention.Emerson's Amer...

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Ambiguity as Aesthetic Strategy: Edgar Allan Poe's Ambitions for the American Short Story

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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2089910022

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2089910022

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1549-0815,1548-9248

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1548-9248

DOI

10.1353/jnt.2018.0007

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