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Ending Ambiguity

Ending Ambiguity is a narrative phenomenon in literary theory whereby a text's conclusion resists definitive interpretation, distinguishing itself from resolved or closed endings by deliberately withholding or complicating closure through indeterminate outcomes, unresolved plotlines, or conflicting thematic signals.

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To end ambiguous sentences

Donald G. MacKay · Perception & Psychophysics · 1966 · 96 citations · Full text

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THE IMPERFECT ENDINGS IN ROMANCE

Rebecca Posner · Transactions of the Philological Society · 1961 · 92 citations

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Does the ending matter? The role of gender-to-ending consistency in sentence reading

Sendy Caffarra, Horacio A. Barber · Brain Research · 2015 · 43 citations · Full text

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To end ambiguous sentences

Donald G. MacKay · Perception & Psychophysics · 1966 · 38 citations · Full text

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The Problematic of Ending in Narrative

J. Hillis Miller · Nineteenth-century fiction · 1978 · 28 citations

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Authors

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    Donald G. MacKay

    University of California, Los Angeles, United States

    2 publications · 134 citations

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    Daniel Gile

    Université Lumière Lyon 2, France

    1 publications · 21 citations

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    J. Hillis Miller

    University of California, Irvine, United States

    1 publications · 28 citations

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    J. Hillis Miller

    Johns Hopkins University, United States

    1 publications · 19 citations

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  5. DJ
    David Janzen

    Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Canada

    1 publications · 10 citations

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Institutions

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  1. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Cambridge, United States

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    2 publications

    134 citations

  2. North Central College

    Naperville, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    10 citations

  3. Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language

    Donostia / San Sebastian, Spain

    1 h-index

    2 publications

    86 citations

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  1. Perception & Psychophysics

    2 publications · 134 citations

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  2. Brain Research

    1 publications · 43 citations

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  3. Nineteenth-Century Fiction

    1 publications · 19 citations

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  4. OpenstarTs (Univeristy of Trieste https://www.units.it/)

    Repository · 1 publications · 21 citations

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  5. Journal for the Study of the Old Testament

    JSOT · 1 publications · 10 citations

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