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... verbal rhythms of the Tale are no less in- sinuating . If we have any doubts about Swift's designs on us , we should place the repeated invocations to our gentleness and intelli- gence beside his boasts of power over us . With double ...
... verbal rhythms of the Tale are no less in- sinuating . If we have any doubts about Swift's designs on us , we should place the repeated invocations to our gentleness and intelli- gence beside his boasts of power over us . With double ...
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Literature as Verbal Space Cary Nelson. reinforce the usual distinctions ; rather he activates their natural ... verbal sediment generates its own potent vapors , which rise to assert their supremacy among abstractions : " Mists ...
Literature as Verbal Space Cary Nelson. reinforce the usual distinctions ; rather he activates their natural ... verbal sediment generates its own potent vapors , which rise to assert their supremacy among abstractions : " Mists ...
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... verbal act in blank space ; indeed can stand as a quotation from the poem , and a catalog of the poem's effects would include spatial clusters , faceless signs . Paterson's blank space is often articulate : We leap awake and what we see ...
... verbal act in blank space ; indeed can stand as a quotation from the poem , and a catalog of the poem's effects would include spatial clusters , faceless signs . Paterson's blank space is often articulate : We leap awake and what we see ...
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