@inbook {27074,
	title = {\&quot;To Define is to Distrust\&quot;: Intertextual Ambiguity in Laurence Sterne\&$\#$39;s Tristram Shandy and James Joyce\&$\#$39;s Ulysses},
	booktitle = {Strategies of Ambiguity},
	year = {2023},
	pages = {291-305},
	publisher = {Routlege},
	organization = {Routlege},
	address = {Ed. Matthias Bauer and Angelika Zirker. New York},
	abstract = {In the final episode of James Joyce{\textquoteright}s Ulysses, Molly Bloom recollects how, in response to a priest{\textquoteright}s question {\textquotedblleft}where,{\textquotedblright} she returned an answer not about a part of her body but about a geographical location. This alludes to an episode of similar cross purposes of Widow Wadman and Uncle Toby in Laurence Sterne{\textquoteright}s Tristram Shandy. The interplay between the two texts is associated with the positive valorization of ambiguity on the part of the narrator of Tristram Shandy. In Sterne{\textquoteright}s novel, legal and contractual definitions which seek to eliminate all ambiguity are, like Uncle Toby{\textquoteright}s fortifications, a temptation for the forces of entropy: instead of shielding the characters from the intrusions of chance, they expose Tristram to serio-comic catastrophes. In Ulysses disambiguation is not a defensive but an offensive weapon ({\textquotedblleft}Unsheathe your dagger definitions{\textquotedblright}; 238). In both cases, but particularly in Ulysses, the valorization of ambiguity in discourse is parallel to structural ambiguities that give rise to diametrically opposite readings. Ambiguity emerges not just as a matter of narrative rhetoric but as a feature of the creative impulse behind the story worlds, and as a challenge to the ethics of reading.},
	url = {https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edit/10.4324/9781003298083/strategies-ambiguity-matthias-bauer-angelika-zirker},
	author = {Leona Toker}
}
