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... tion is rationalization , finding intellectual reasons for something patently illogical ( as persons doing absurd acts under post - hypnotic suggestions will do ) . Raskolnikov justifies what is essentially mother - murder by a theory ...
... tion is rationalization , finding intellectual reasons for something patently illogical ( as persons doing absurd acts under post - hypnotic suggestions will do ) . Raskolnikov justifies what is essentially mother - murder by a theory ...
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... tion in the literary work must be one that matches a transforma- tion familiar to the reader . Between these extremes , there can be all kinds of variations , for example , in the associations any partic- ular reader may bring to the ...
... tion in the literary work must be one that matches a transforma- tion familiar to the reader . Between these extremes , there can be all kinds of variations , for example , in the associations any partic- ular reader may bring to the ...
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... tion of academic criticism , as something which grows out of and completes the work of scholarship , is a relatively new one . One feels that criticism has played a rather minor role in the litera- ture of the past ; that , especially ...
... tion of academic criticism , as something which grows out of and completes the work of scholarship , is a relatively new one . One feels that criticism has played a rather minor role in the litera- ture of the past ; that , especially ...
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Literature as Transformation | 3 |
A Dictionary of Fantasy | 31 |
The Willing Suspension of Disbelief | 63 |
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