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... theme , and the identifying of the theme is the next step . . . . the theme is not something in the poem , much less a moral precept suggested by it , but the struc- tural principle in the poem.5 Meaning in literature - Frye's " poem ...
... theme , and the identifying of the theme is the next step . . . . the theme is not something in the poem , much less a moral precept suggested by it , but the struc- tural principle in the poem.5 Meaning in literature - Frye's " poem ...
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... themes . In the Wife's Tale , for example , he finds themes of male - female , withholding - giving , words- experience , old - young , and so on . We can represent this abstraction into themes as a kind of " stretching " of the text ...
... themes . In the Wife's Tale , for example , he finds themes of male - female , withholding - giving , words- experience , old - young , and so on . We can represent this abstraction into themes as a kind of " stretching " of the text ...
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... themes Central meaning XXXXXXX XXXXXXXX Text Particular themes Central fantasy Consciously , we arrive at the psychoanalytic reading by a process not unlike our approach to other kinds of meaning . We abstract images , incidents ...
... themes Central meaning XXXXXXX XXXXXXXX Text Particular themes Central fantasy Consciously , we arrive at the psychoanalytic reading by a process not unlike our approach to other kinds of meaning . We abstract images , incidents ...
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Literature as Transformation | 3 |
A Dictionary of Fantasy | 31 |
The Willing Suspension of Disbelief | 63 |
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