The Dynamics of Literary Response |
From inside the book
Results 1-3 of 30
Page 134
... reason , to judge from a distinguished linguist's account of people's responses to sentences like those of poetry or proverb . Professor Noam Chomsky writes : Given a grammatically deviant utterance , we attempt to impose an ...
... reason , to judge from a distinguished linguist's account of people's responses to sentences like those of poetry or proverb . Professor Noam Chomsky writes : Given a grammatically deviant utterance , we attempt to impose an ...
Page 171
... reason psychologists give is that their early attempts to solve the puzzles of childhood became a way of life . In technical jargon , infantile curiosity became sublimated into the intellectual and aesthetic curiosity of the adult . Now ...
... reason psychologists give is that their early attempts to solve the puzzles of childhood became a way of life . In technical jargon , infantile curiosity became sublimated into the intellectual and aesthetic curiosity of the adult . Now ...
Page 333
... reason why a great poet should be a wise and good man , or even a tolerable human being , but there is every reason why his reader should be improved in his humanity as a result of reading him . " 12 Yet , if this were true , English ...
... reason why a great poet should be a wise and good man , or even a tolerable human being , but there is every reason why his reader should be improved in his humanity as a result of reading him . " 12 Yet , if this were true , English ...
Contents
Literature as Transformation | 3 |
A Dictionary of Fantasy | 31 |
The Willing Suspension of Disbelief | 63 |
Copyright | |
10 other sections not shown
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
accept adult affect anxiety associated audience become bring character child comes conscious critics deal defense describe displacement dream drive emotional example expect experience express fantasy fear feel film final formal Freud give gratification images intellectual introjection involved joke kind lady language leads least less literary literature look manage meaning mind moral mother movie myth night novel object offers oral particular pattern perhaps person phallic phrase play pleasure poem poet poetry possible Press psychoanalytic psychological puzzling reader reading reality reason relation represent response scene seems sense separate sexual short simply sound stanza story structure style subjective suggests symbols Tale tell theme things thought tion transformation turn unconscious University whole Wife wish woman writer York