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... reason , to judge from a distinguished linguist's account of people's responses to sentences like those of poetry or proverb . Professor Noam Chomsky writes : Given a grammatically deviant utterance , we attempt to impose an ...
... reason , to judge from a distinguished linguist's account of people's responses to sentences like those of poetry or proverb . Professor Noam Chomsky writes : Given a grammatically deviant utterance , we attempt to impose an ...
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... reason psychologists give is that their early attempts to solve the puzzles of childhood became a way of life . In technical jargon , infantile curiosity became sublimated into the intellectual and aesthetic curiosity of the adult . Now ...
... reason psychologists give is that their early attempts to solve the puzzles of childhood became a way of life . In technical jargon , infantile curiosity became sublimated into the intellectual and aesthetic curiosity of the adult . Now ...
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... reason for this silence is that psychoanalysis has as yet offered no fully satisfactory theory of affect . The whole matter lies in one of the most puzzling areas of psychological study , psychosomatics , in Felix Deutsch's phrase ...
... reason for this silence is that psychoanalysis has as yet offered no fully satisfactory theory of affect . The whole matter lies in one of the most puzzling areas of psychological study , psychosomatics , in Felix Deutsch's phrase ...
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Literature as Transformation | 3 |
A Dictionary of Fantasy | 31 |
The Willing Suspension of Disbelief | 63 |
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