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Page 97
... Perhaps , then , we can guess that the artistic " frame " breaks down and people try to punish or love or prevent the events and people onstage when they need very strongly to feel that what is “ in here ” is really " out there . " Perhaps ...
... Perhaps , then , we can guess that the artistic " frame " breaks down and people try to punish or love or prevent the events and people onstage when they need very strongly to feel that what is “ in here ” is really " out there . " Perhaps ...
Page 131
... Perhaps it is also true of form in the larger sense of structure that it gives pleasure even as it defends . For example , in the “ to- morrow " speech , the abstract words at the opening and the final phrases erase or obliterate the ...
... Perhaps it is also true of form in the larger sense of structure that it gives pleasure even as it defends . For example , in the “ to- morrow " speech , the abstract words at the opening and the final phrases erase or obliterate the ...
Page 340
... perhaps true , perhaps only a little bit true , or , as seems most likely , it states a wish and illusion . What is not illusory is the especially deep psychic pleasure literature offers us . Having understood that pleasure somewhat ...
... perhaps true , perhaps only a little bit true , or , as seems most likely , it states a wish and illusion . What is not illusory is the especially deep psychic pleasure literature offers us . Having understood that pleasure somewhat ...
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Literature as Transformation | 3 |
A Dictionary of Fantasy | 31 |
The Willing Suspension of Disbelief | 63 |
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