What is the significance of paradoxes in modernist literature?

Philip Hardie, Paradox and the Marvellous in Augustan Literature and Culture. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. xiii, 388. ISBN 9780199231249. $ ... May 20, 2020 ... In literature, contradictions take on different forms, and they often show up as examples of the literary devices below: Paradox; Oxymoron ... May 1, 2024 ... My dissertation, “Rewriting the American Work Narrative: Modernist Literature and the Paradox of Patriotic Labor,” analyzes depictions of work in novels and ... This book focuses on Abbey's aesthetic and philosophy of paradox as they are reflected in his writings, and explores his literary technique. ... Literature and Literary Studies > Literary Theory. In On Paradox literary and legal scholar Elizabeth S. Anker contends that faith in the logic of paradox ... This literature has added a wealth of data for and against a Hispanic mortality advantage, but has failed to clarify the overall relationship. A number of ... Black Genocides moves toward filling this gap by presenting a transnational literary history of the term genocide in writings about racialized violence against ... In a paradox, a statement that appears to be contradictory or impossible actually expresses a striking and often counterintuitive truth on a more figurative ... Feb 18, 2022 ... How do you separate paradoxes and oxymorons? Oxymoron's basically just a literary thing? Sweet sorrow, dark day & etc. This paper describes the paradox, and focuses on the resolutions that have been advanced in the literature while alluding to the historical context. In ...