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... moral " message . " This dis- placement from moral message to intellectual meaning is itself a source of pleasure in the puzzling movie , particularly for the intel- lectuals to whom the puzzling movie makes its chief appeal . After all ...
... moral " message . " This dis- placement from moral message to intellectual meaning is itself a source of pleasure in the puzzling movie , particularly for the intel- lectuals to whom the puzzling movie makes its chief appeal . After all ...
Page 333
... moral effect for literature usually imply some- thing more than the moral effect of a newspaper editorial - some kind of deeper change in character , an improvement in a man's humanity , to use Frye's phrase . Does literature " improve ...
... moral effect for literature usually imply some- thing more than the moral effect of a newspaper editorial - some kind of deeper change in character , an improvement in a man's humanity , to use Frye's phrase . Does literature " improve ...
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... moral effect . First , literature may reinforce or counter the defenses and adaptations our culture builds into us . Second , literature lets us experience those and other values in a more open , as if ” way ; it breaks down — for a ...
... moral effect . First , literature may reinforce or counter the defenses and adaptations our culture builds into us . Second , literature lets us experience those and other values in a more open , as if ” way ; it breaks down — for a ...
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Literature as Transformation | 3 |
A Dictionary of Fantasy | 31 |
The Willing Suspension of Disbelief | 63 |
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