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... feel that the wonderful venusian sexuality of Marilyn Monroe or Brigitte Bardot really does exist out there . Perhaps the Southern gentleman who attacks the murderous Othello or the lady who so sympathizes with the abused wife in Look ...
... feel that the wonderful venusian sexuality of Marilyn Monroe or Brigitte Bardot really does exist out there . Perhaps the Southern gentleman who attacks the murderous Othello or the lady who so sympathizes with the abused wife in Look ...
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... feel constantly and strongly a tension between these formalisms and the raw emotions of love and hate beneath them . This tension , however , is only one in a long series of formalized opposites in which the language and inci- dents of ...
... feel constantly and strongly a tension between these formalisms and the raw emotions of love and hate beneath them . This tension , however , is only one in a long series of formalized opposites in which the language and inci- dents of ...
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... feel it as funny - we do not feel sadness or fear or anger . Similarly , if we like " Dover Beach ” at all , we feel it as tranquilizing or , perhaps , as some other critics have done , as evoking despair or pain - but we do not feel ...
... feel it as funny - we do not feel sadness or fear or anger . Similarly , if we like " Dover Beach ” at all , we feel it as tranquilizing or , perhaps , as some other critics have done , as evoking despair or pain - but we do not feel ...
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Literature as Transformation | 3 |
A Dictionary of Fantasy | 31 |
The Willing Suspension of Disbelief | 63 |
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