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... bring , therefore , to works of art memories of similar pleasures we have had . At an adult level we bring memories of recent aesthetic pleasures . At a somewhat earlier level , we bring the memory of the intense fantasies and reading ...
... bring , therefore , to works of art memories of similar pleasures we have had . At an adult level we bring memories of recent aesthetic pleasures . At a somewhat earlier level , we bring the memory of the intense fantasies and reading ...
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... bring to them our pre - existing psychic structure and experience ; we do the same when we perceive literature . What we bring may be pleasurable fantasies or guilty or anxious ones , defensive structures like form , or intellectual ...
... bring to them our pre - existing psychic structure and experience ; we do the same when we perceive literature . What we bring may be pleasurable fantasies or guilty or anxious ones , defensive structures like form , or intellectual ...
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... bring myself to him , and I can find out what of myself I am bringing to him- but why do I bring it to him in the first place ? In short , what makes us re - create a dramatic character ? What makes me imagine myself into a figment of ...
... bring myself to him , and I can find out what of myself I am bringing to him- but why do I bring it to him in the first place ? In short , what makes us re - create a dramatic character ? What makes me imagine myself into a figment of ...
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Literature as Transformation | 3 |
A Dictionary of Fantasy | 31 |
The Willing Suspension of Disbelief | 63 |
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