Discursive stratagems: Ambrose Bierce's attacks on realism's metaphysics of language
This article explores the stylistic devices and narrative techniques that the late 19th-century great American satirist employed to subvert and ridicule his contemporaries' understanding of language and of its relationship to reality. According to Bierce, language is not merely a constative and...
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Universidad de Alicante
1994-11-01
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| Series: | Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses |
| Online Access: | https://raei.ua.es/article/view/1994-n7-discursive-stratagems-ambrose-bierces-attacks-on-realisms-metaphysics-of-language |