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... anxiety with a feeling of reassurance . Mercutio , so long as he is present , displaces our attention from the anxiety - laden issue of ambivalence onto himself , and we feel admiration rather than anxiety . This is a somewhat novel ...
... anxiety with a feeling of reassurance . Mercutio , so long as he is present , displaces our attention from the anxiety - laden issue of ambivalence onto himself , and we feel admiration rather than anxiety . This is a somewhat novel ...
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... anxiety than to lead to pleasure . Also , I doubt that something so abstract as , say , the sonnet - form can be much of a source of pleasure in itself . Freud , in " The " Uncanny , ' " deals with literary fantasies which one would ...
... anxiety than to lead to pleasure . Also , I doubt that something so abstract as , say , the sonnet - form can be much of a source of pleasure in itself . Freud , in " The " Uncanny , ' " deals with literary fantasies which one would ...
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... anxiety . Further , our concept of lit- erature as a balance of fantasy and management of fantasy leads us to at ... anxiety - arousing aspects . If not much in the fantasy arouses anxiety , we feel the affects appropriate to drive ...
... anxiety . Further , our concept of lit- erature as a balance of fantasy and management of fantasy leads us to at ... anxiety - arousing aspects . If not much in the fantasy arouses anxiety , we feel the affects appropriate to drive ...
Contents
Literature as Transformation | 3 |
A Dictionary of Fantasy | 31 |
The Willing Suspension of Disbelief | 63 |
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