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Page xiii
... subjective views of literature . I have suggested some of my subjective concerns ; in fairness , I should now set out some of the objective assumptions that inform this book . First , I propose to talk about literature primarily as an ...
... subjective views of literature . I have suggested some of my subjective concerns ; in fairness , I should now set out some of the objective assumptions that inform this book . First , I propose to talk about literature primarily as an ...
Page xv
... subjective , objective , and " commonly experi- enced . " Implicit in all these other assumptions is my belief in close study of the text and in psychoanalysis . I think we can — and should -talk , at least initially , about literary ...
... subjective , objective , and " commonly experi- enced . " Implicit in all these other assumptions is my belief in close study of the text and in psychoanalysis . I think we can — and should -talk , at least initially , about literary ...
Page 108
... subjective experience . Form , too , is both objective and subjective ; we can see it in the text , but form only comes alive as it shapes our response . To look at form in this sense , then , we need to look first at the way the poem ...
... subjective experience . Form , too , is both objective and subjective ; we can see it in the text , but form only comes alive as it shapes our response . To look at form in this sense , then , we need to look first at the way the poem ...
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Literature as Transformation | 3 |
A Dictionary of Fantasy | 31 |
The Willing Suspension of Disbelief | 63 |
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