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... reading discovers have a special status : infantile , primitive , bodily , charged with fear and desire , we know from clinical evidence they involve the deepest roots of our cumulating lives . Nor can they be abstracted as other ...
... reading discovers have a special status : infantile , primitive , bodily , charged with fear and desire , we know from clinical evidence they involve the deepest roots of our cumulating lives . Nor can they be abstracted as other ...
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... reader's abil- ity to be passive , but a teacher can also affect its position . If a - a ' is higher , the reader is more engrossed ; if a - a ' is lower , it reveals a more active process of reading , one with more conscious effort ...
... reader's abil- ity to be passive , but a teacher can also affect its position . If a - a ' is higher , the reader is more engrossed ; if a - a ' is lower , it reveals a more active process of reading , one with more conscious effort ...
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... reading books , we bring to them a rather firmly structured personality . On the other hand , we have all seen adoles- cents become , for a month or two , Hamlet or Raskolnikov or Julien Sorel under the influence of some reading ...
... reading books , we bring to them a rather firmly structured personality . On the other hand , we have all seen adoles- cents become , for a month or two , Hamlet or Raskolnikov or Julien Sorel under the influence of some reading ...
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Literature as Transformation | 3 |
A Dictionary of Fantasy | 31 |
The Willing Suspension of Disbelief | 63 |
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