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... accept all kinds of unvanities and inprobabilities for example , that a witch can solve a young executive's problems or that he will believe she can . The joke tricked us as the witch - mother tricked the young executive - but how ? How ...
... accept all kinds of unvanities and inprobabilities for example , that a witch can solve a young executive's problems or that he will believe she can . The joke tricked us as the witch - mother tricked the young executive - but how ? How ...
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... accept literature , not for what we wish it were but for the one thing we can be certain it is a source of rich and spe- cial pleasures , good in themselves , needing and perhaps having no further justification . In the deepest sense ...
... accept literature , not for what we wish it were but for the one thing we can be certain it is a source of rich and spe- cial pleasures , good in themselves , needing and perhaps having no further justification . In the deepest sense ...
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Norman Norwood Holland. further justification . In the deepest sense , to accept , understand , and enjoy literature for what it is , we must also accept , understand , and enjoy ourselves for what we are . Whatever psychoanalysis says ...
Norman Norwood Holland. further justification . In the deepest sense , to accept , understand , and enjoy literature for what it is , we must also accept , understand , and enjoy ourselves for what we are . Whatever psychoanalysis says ...
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Literature as Transformation | 3 |
A Dictionary of Fantasy | 31 |
The Willing Suspension of Disbelief | 63 |
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