In the Beginning was the Word: Hebraic Intertextuality and Critical Inquiry of Ambrose Bierce
Description:
This study corroborates theories that ordinary representation of narrative time as a linear series of "nows" hides the true constitution of time and that it is advantageous for us as readers and critics to consider alternatives to progressive reality and linear discourse in order to comprehend many of Ambrose Bierce's stories, for his discourse is fluid and metonymic and defies explication within traditional western language concepts. The Hebraic theory of intertextuality encourages limitless c…
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Date:
August 1990
Creator:
Streng, Rodney L. (Rodney Lin)
Partner:
UNT Libraries