“Neither Innocent, nor Guilty”: the Scapegoat in the Ironic Short Stories of William Somerset Maugham
This article aims to examine several short stories of W. Somerset Maugham in terms of ironic victimization. Northrop Frye’s claim that a pharmakos or a scapegoat is a typical ironic victim inspired my idea of dissecting a number of characters in Maugham’s stories as pharmakoi. In the analysis two t...
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University of Pardubice
2020-12-01
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| Series: | American and British Studies Annual |
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| Online Access: | https://absa.upce.cz/index.php/absa/article/view/2346 |