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... scene fantasy at the core of the pas- sage is correct , then we can draw three conclusions . First , the images and metaphors of the passage are not , as Mr. Ransom claims , mixed . On the contrary , if we look in them for words that ...
... scene fantasy at the core of the pas- sage is correct , then we can draw three conclusions . First , the images and metaphors of the passage are not , as Mr. Ransom claims , mixed . On the contrary , if we look in them for words that ...
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... scene fantasy , here a noisy , boisterous one . In its context in The Tempest , the word's symbolic value is clear : the “ revels " are a wedding - dance and masque which are to negate any pre - nuptial sex between Ferdinand and Miranda ...
... scene fantasy , here a noisy , boisterous one . In its context in The Tempest , the word's symbolic value is clear : the “ revels " are a wedding - dance and masque which are to negate any pre - nuptial sex between Ferdinand and Miranda ...
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... scene begins with a mingling of sex and hate which we feel as vaguely threatening , when the two Cap- ulet servants talk about thrusting Montague's maids to the wall , taking the maids ' heads or maidenheads . A fight quickly results ...
... scene begins with a mingling of sex and hate which we feel as vaguely threatening , when the two Cap- ulet servants talk about thrusting Montague's maids to the wall , taking the maids ' heads or maidenheads . A fight quickly results ...
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Literature as Transformation | 3 |
A Dictionary of Fantasy | 31 |
The Willing Suspension of Disbelief | 63 |
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