The Incarnate Word: Literature as Verbal Space |
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... reader , both sharing a desire to enact the work . Thus an author's " vision " exists for us as a text that generates a ... reading situation . Each time a reader performs an act of litera- ture , the results are different . The essays ...
... reader , both sharing a desire to enact the work . Thus an author's " vision " exists for us as a text that generates a ... reading situation . Each time a reader performs an act of litera- ture , the results are different . The essays ...
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... Reading has power because it offers not an imaginary world entirely available to rational explication , but a universe which , however ambiguous , is wholly present to the mind . The reader enjoys for a time the sense that his own life ...
... Reading has power because it offers not an imaginary world entirely available to rational explication , but a universe which , however ambiguous , is wholly present to the mind . The reader enjoys for a time the sense that his own life ...
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... reading . And the newly created " thing " of reader - invested- with - the - space sustained by " flame " and ... reading . In this passage ( P , 226 ) — Knower 200 THE INCARNATE WORD.
... reading . And the newly created " thing " of reader - invested- with - the - space sustained by " flame " and ... reading . In this passage ( P , 226 ) — Knower 200 THE INCARNATE WORD.
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ONE Introduction | 3 |
the circle as figural space | 25 |
a fourfold | 129 |
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