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... simply an intellectual ver- sion of the original fantasy : the loss involved in getting mother sexually as against orally . We can call the joke's meaning a trans- formation analogous to a sublimation , for it makes the unconscious ...
... simply an intellectual ver- sion of the original fantasy : the loss involved in getting mother sexually as against orally . We can call the joke's meaning a trans- formation analogous to a sublimation , for it makes the unconscious ...
Page 69
... simply a speaker's table , a cashbox ( evidently for receipts or something ) , a few papers , a chair . The heroine , Bunny , comes to the table and addresses the audience exactly as though it were the P - T.A . ( or whatever ) that had ...
... simply a speaker's table , a cashbox ( evidently for receipts or something ) , a few papers , a chair . The heroine , Bunny , comes to the table and addresses the audience exactly as though it were the P - T.A . ( or whatever ) that had ...
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... simply not literary criticism in any usual sense . It is an attempt to develop a theory about our response to books , to stand both inside and outside that response so as to observe and under- stand it . What should a " theory of ...
... simply not literary criticism in any usual sense . It is an attempt to develop a theory about our response to books , to stand both inside and outside that response so as to observe and under- stand it . What should a " theory of ...
Contents
Literature as Transformation | 3 |
A Dictionary of Fantasy | 31 |
The Willing Suspension of Disbelief | 63 |
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