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T1 The Dead: la retórica de la contradicción en un relato literario
A1 Somacarrera, Pilar
AB The present paper is a stylistic approach to the linguistic representationof the state of mind of Ilena, the protagonist of the short story“The Dead” by Joyce Carol Oates. Ilena is deeply attracted by paradoxand carries out this principle in all the realms of her life. She not onlyexperiments with the opposite effects of drugs, but also practices contradictionin her sexual and professional life. This complex fictionalattitude is conveyed by a number of linguistic and narrative devices,which we have called the “rhetoric of contradiction”, consisting in thepervasive use of oxymoron and opposition.The story is also held togetherby a scientific frame related to Ilena’s drug-taking habits. Thisframe provides cohesion and coherence to the different episodes of theotherwise achronological narrative, and also foregrounds themacrostructure of paradox, since the drugs provoke “adverse reactions”in the protagonist, who constantly stands between life and death.
PB Servicio de Publicaciones. Universidad de La Laguna
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RD 18-may-2024