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... writer's way with words : Shavian wit or Joycean puns or Shakespearean quibbles . Second , he seems to include a writer's choice of material and his characteristic form for handling it : it would be hard , for example , to think of ...
... writer's way with words : Shavian wit or Joycean puns or Shakespearean quibbles . Second , he seems to include a writer's choice of material and his characteristic form for handling it : it would be hard , for example , to think of ...
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... writer to a certain kind of ma- terial . The " habitual mode of bringing into harmony " refers to a man's defenses ; they in turn correspond to a writer's ways of deal- ing with his material - form and structure on the large scale , sen ...
... writer to a certain kind of ma- terial . The " habitual mode of bringing into harmony " refers to a man's defenses ; they in turn correspond to a writer's ways of deal- ing with his material - form and structure on the large scale , sen ...
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... writer has embodied in the text . For the long moment of the work of art , we experience his character - traits as our own , espe- cially his defenses and adaptations . Thus , the writer becomes willy - nilly a transmitter of cultural ...
... writer has embodied in the text . For the long moment of the work of art , we experience his character - traits as our own , espe- cially his defenses and adaptations . Thus , the writer becomes willy - nilly a transmitter of cultural ...
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Literature as Transformation | 3 |
A Dictionary of Fantasy | 31 |
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