How Does a Convention Mean? A Semiotic Reading of Agnon's Bilingual Key-Irony in A Guest for the Night
The subject of this study is the semiosis of the ironic message of Agnon's A Guest for the Night (1939). The role played by the key-motif in structuring the ironic symbolism of the novel has long been recognized; the key has been related to such central issues as truth vs. deception, authentici...
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Format: | Print Article |
Language: | English |
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College
1985
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Hebrew Union College annual / Jewish Institute of Religion
Year: 1985, Volume: 56, Pages: 251-269 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
ʿAgnon, Shemuʾel Yosef 1888-1970
/ Irony
/ Key (Motif)
/ Judaism
/ Identity
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IxTheo Classification: | BH Judaism |
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