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Page 79
... audience ? There is no such thing as an audience as an entity - in - itself , for whenever one finds an audience one finds a literary work creating it , and without a literary work there would be no audience . * Be that as it may , we ...
... audience ? There is no such thing as an audience as an entity - in - itself , for whenever one finds an audience one finds a literary work creating it , and without a literary work there would be no audience . * Be that as it may , we ...
Page 98
... audience is to achieve anonymity ; to be the subject of an audience is to be stri- dently aware of oneself . The audience may be present , as in a the- ater , or implicit , as when we feel we are part of " the reading pub- lic ...
... audience is to achieve anonymity ; to be the subject of an audience is to be stri- dently aware of oneself . The audience may be present , as in a the- ater , or implicit , as when we feel we are part of " the reading pub- lic ...
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... audience must not be able to think that it has been transported to the scene of the story . " " The actor has to discard whatever means he has learnt of getting the audience to identify it- self with the characters which he plays ...
... audience must not be able to think that it has been transported to the scene of the story . " " The actor has to discard whatever means he has learnt of getting the audience to identify it- self with the characters which he plays ...
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