Literary Criticism; an Introductory ReaderLionel Trilling |
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... reader's consciousness of the tradition in which the author composed . And the noticing of similarities inevitably involves the remarking of differences : the reader and the critic will be at one in their curiosity about what in the ...
... reader's consciousness of the tradition in which the author composed . And the noticing of similarities inevitably involves the remarking of differences : the reader and the critic will be at one in their curiosity about what in the ...
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... reader , and by the end of the nineteenth century many poets rejected the idea that a reader was being addressed at all : if it so chanced that he came upon the poem and found pleasure or significance in it , that was wholly his affair ...
... reader , and by the end of the nineteenth century many poets rejected the idea that a reader was being addressed at all : if it so chanced that he came upon the poem and found pleasure or significance in it , that was wholly his affair ...
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... reader . But there is no danger that people will cease to talk about the poet and his reader . Our basic human interest is most readily served when we talk about the reader's reactions - our own responses to the poem or the novel - the ...
... reader . But there is no danger that people will cease to talk about the poet and his reader . Our basic human interest is most readily served when we talk about the reader's reactions - our own responses to the poem or the novel - the ...
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