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... fantasy than the prose storyteller . Prose tends to transform fantasy toward meaning ; poetry does that but also displaces cathexis to the verbal level . Inevitably , then , a narrative in prose will make a stronger , more direct appeal ...
... fantasy than the prose storyteller . Prose tends to transform fantasy toward meaning ; poetry does that but also displaces cathexis to the verbal level . Inevitably , then , a narrative in prose will make a stronger , more direct appeal ...
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... fantasy . We can distinguish two other important agents of transformation . The first is structure or form ( in a large sense ) , that which determines what we are aware of at any given moment as we are seeing the text . Form acts to ...
... fantasy . We can distinguish two other important agents of transformation . The first is structure or form ( in a large sense ) , that which determines what we are aware of at any given moment as we are seeing the text . Form acts to ...
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... fantasy and management of fantasy leads us to at least a tentative understanding of the sources of the affects we experience , not only in books but perhaps in life as well . That is , the literary work transforms a fantasy which has ...
... fantasy and management of fantasy leads us to at least a tentative understanding of the sources of the affects we experience , not only in books but perhaps in life as well . That is , the literary work transforms a fantasy which has ...
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Literature as Transformation | 3 |
A Dictionary of Fantasy | 31 |
The Willing Suspension of Disbelief | 63 |
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