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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Main Author: Feldman, Yael S. 1941- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Published: 1986
In: Hebrew Union College annual
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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