We have seen that people use paradox for different
purposes and functions. These can be summarised here. A
paradox en!ililesus to overcome dichotomies created bi
Aristotelian (logical) thought; gives us a feeling of
wonder, shock, surprise and novelty; permits us to
experience the object in isolation from our personal
concerns; embodies the challenge its author puts to the
reader; allows us feel the emotions evoked by the possible
readings of the eXPression; and gives us an illusion of the
essence of an experience or world. A paradox is also a
useful tool in the hand:'!d' H Liter'aryauthor HI order to
defend apparent absurdities; equivocate his real attitude
of the metamorphic principle; express inte drama;
towards his subject; show the underlying unity of all
things; reshape reality; express the inexpressible; achieve
narrative irony or create a paradoxical character; make use
but not least,
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