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... idle reading . My larger claim is that late medieval , pre - Reformation textual practice is not driven by a need to define and expel cultural waste ; on the contrary , idle reading is an essen- tial part of a cultural economy . More ...
... idle reading . My larger claim is that late medieval , pre - Reformation textual practice is not driven by a need to define and expel cultural waste ; on the contrary , idle reading is an essen- tial part of a cultural economy . More ...
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... idle and profitless life . The amusing Ovidian conceit of accounting for sloth as busyness runs as a comic leitmotif throughout the book . Thus in Amans ' denial of idleness , he insists that he is busy as a bee : whatever his lady bids ...
... idle and profitless life . The amusing Ovidian conceit of accounting for sloth as busyness runs as a comic leitmotif throughout the book . Thus in Amans ' denial of idleness , he insists that he is busy as a bee : whatever his lady bids ...
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... idle fantasy : Amans draws Genius forth to tell exactly the kind of story that he wants to hear , and Genius ... idle , static play of fantasy . The psy- che has its own economy , by this poem's account . Idleness is part of that economy ...
... idle fantasy : Amans draws Genius forth to tell exactly the kind of story that he wants to hear , and Genius ... idle , static play of fantasy . The psy- che has its own economy , by this poem's account . Idleness is part of that economy ...
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