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... presents us with a central core of fantasy that is evidently much more universal , for we find the fantasies listed in our dic- tionary very generally in literature and in both men and women . Similarly , in dreams , our associations to ...
... presents us with a central core of fantasy that is evidently much more universal , for we find the fantasies listed in our dic- tionary very generally in literature and in both men and women . Similarly , in dreams , our associations to ...
Page 159
... present the fantasy . In fiction , the writer presents it . In narrative poetry , too , the writer presents a fantasy , but he presents it dis- placed upward into language that concerns us with language as. THE DISPLACEMENT TO LANGUAGE 159.
... present the fantasy . In fiction , the writer presents it . In narrative poetry , too , the writer presents a fantasy , but he presents it dis- placed upward into language that concerns us with language as. THE DISPLACEMENT TO LANGUAGE 159.
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... presents itself as an aesthetic mystery : What does it " mean " ? As in a joke , the oblique promise of a " point " enables us to relax our demand for coherence and take sensuous pleasure in the incoherent visual form of the film . Then ...
... presents itself as an aesthetic mystery : What does it " mean " ? As in a joke , the oblique promise of a " point " enables us to relax our demand for coherence and take sensuous pleasure in the incoherent visual form of the film . Then ...
Contents
Literature as Transformation | 3 |
A Dictionary of Fantasy | 31 |
The Willing Suspension of Disbelief | 63 |
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