Ambiguity in Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Ambiguities of Perception in Wuthering Heights -- 1.1 Dreaming and Ghostly Apparitions in Lockwood's Narrative of His "Terrible Night" -- "[T]he air swarmed with Catherines": The Beginning of the Third Chapter -- Lockwood's Unambiguous Dream about Jabes Branderham -- "[T]he fingers of a little, ice-cold hand": Lockwood's Encounter with Catherine -- 1.2 "My bodily eye was cheated into a momentary belief": Sensory Delusion and Memory in Nelly's Narrative of Her Experience at the Signpost -- Foregrounding Perception as a Basis for Narrating: The Beginning of Nelly's Narrative -- "[I]t appeared that I beheld my early playmate": Nelly's Perception of the Child on the Heath -- "The apparition had outstripped me": Nelly's Interaction with Hareton -- 1.3 "Don't you see that face?" Catherine's Vision(s) before Her Death -- "I see in you, Nelly": Catherine's First Vision -- "I see a face in it!": Catherine's Vision of Herself -- "Look! […] that's my room, with the candle in it": Catherine's Vison of Her Afterlife -- 1.4 "I could almost see her, and yet I could not!": Misperceptions in Heathcliff's Hypodiegetic Narrative -- "It seemed that I heard a sigh": Auditory and Tactile Evidence of Catherine's Presence at Her Grave -- "I had not one [glimpse]": The Absence of Visual Evidence -- 1.5 "[I]t seemed, exactly, that he gazed": Nelly's Perception of Heathcliff before His Death -- "[A] monomania on the subject of his departed idol": Mental Illness and Catherine's Presence in Heathcliff's Final Days -- Two Layers of Perception: Nelly's Observation of Heathcliff's Perceptions -- 1.6 Wuthering Heights as an Epistemological Reflection -- Chapter 2 Ambiguities of Narration in Wuthering Heights -- 2.1 Multiperspectivity and Ambiguity.

Ambiguity and the Balance between Narrative Voices in Wuthering Heights -- Ambiguity and the Division between the Experiencing Self and the Narrating Self -- 2.2 Narrative Embedding and Ambiguity -- Narrative Embedding and Global Ambiguity -- Ambiguity and the Illusion of Immediacy in Wuthering Heights -- Ambiguity and Embedding in Heathcliff's Hypodiegetic Narrative -- 2.3 Ambiguity and Time in Wuthering Heights -- Ambiguity and Order -- Ambiguity and Frequency -- The Dynamics of Ambiguity in Wuthering Heights -- 2.4 Wuthering Heights as a Narratological Reflection -- Chapter 3 The Ambiguous World of Wuthering Heights -- 3.1 The Permeability between Humans in Wuthering Heights -- Ontological Ambiguities in Catherine's and Heathcliff's Reflections on their Relationship -- "Who is to separate us, pray? They'll meet the fate of Milo!": Identity and Separation -- 3.2 The Permeability between Life and Death in Wuthering Heights -- "[A]lmost as death-like": The Juxtaposition of Catherine's Corpse and Her Sleeping Husband -- "[I]ncomparably beyond and above": Catherine's Abode in Afterlife -- "I have nearly attained my heaven": The Ambiguity of "Heaven" in Wuthering Heights -- "[U]nquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth": The Global Ambiguity Regarding the Nature of Death -- 3.3 The Permeability between Humans and Nature in Wuthering Heights -- The Agentive Natural Environment of Wuthering Heights -- Heathcliff and Catherine Blend into Nature -- 3.4 Transcending Boundaries of Time and Space in Wuthering Heights -- The Past and the Present in Nelly's Depiction of Her Experience at the Signpost -- "[A] personification of my youth, not a human being": Heathcliff's Return to Childhood -- 3.5 Heathcliff's Ambiguous Nature -- "Is he a ghoul, or a vampire?" Metaphors and the Ambiguity regarding Heathcliff's Nature.

"Is Mr Heathcliff a Man?": Questions and Heathcliff's Ambiguous Nature -- "I beseech you to explain, if you can, what I have married": The Problem of Categorizing Heathcliff's Ambiguous Nature -- "A man's shape animated by demon life": The Reception of Heathcliff's Character -- 3.6 Wuthering Heights as an Ontological Reflection -- Chapter 4 Conclusion: Ambiguity in Wuthering Heights: A Global View -- 4.1 Ambiguity and Genre -- 4.1.1 Genre Ambiguity Established: the Paratext of Wuthering Heights -- 4.1.2 The Gothic and Travel Narratives in the Opening Chapters of Wuthering Heights -- 4.1.3 Gothic Tropes and Emotions and the Narrative Voices of Wuthering Heights -- 4.1.4 The Gothic and Narrative Embedding -- 4.1.5 Genre, Global Ambiguity and the World of Wuthering Heights -- 4.2 The Constitution of Ambiguity in Wuthering Heights -- 4.2.1 The Ambiguities of Wuthering Heights and Approaches to Ambiguity in Literary Studies -- 4.2.2 The Contribution of the Concept of Ambiguity for the Study of Wuthering Heights -- 4.2.3 Wuthering Heights and its Implications for the Research on Ambiguity -- Bibliography -- Index.

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