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... particular literary texts . As an aid to the general reader , a glossary of some of the psychoanalytical terms used appears at the end of the book . To say why I regard working with particular texts as so necessary and why , therefore ...
... particular literary texts . As an aid to the general reader , a glossary of some of the psychoanalytical terms used appears at the end of the book . To say why I regard working with particular texts as so necessary and why , therefore ...
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... particular manifestations of one or another of the general terms ( imperfections , idea , fact ) at any point in the text or else his generalizations from the text left something out . The technique is a powerful one , as thirty years ...
... particular manifestations of one or another of the general terms ( imperfections , idea , fact ) at any point in the text or else his generalizations from the text left something out . The technique is a powerful one , as thirty years ...
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... particular things are happening . Consider , for example , what has always seemed to me one of the loveliest sen- tences in English , Shakespeare's half - line , " Our revels now are ended . " There is scarcely any deviance from ...
... particular things are happening . Consider , for example , what has always seemed to me one of the loveliest sen- tences in English , Shakespeare's half - line , " Our revels now are ended . " There is scarcely any deviance from ...
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Literature as Transformation | 3 |
A Dictionary of Fantasy | 31 |
The Willing Suspension of Disbelief | 63 |
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