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... story nor why the story has en- grossed five centuries of readers ( even some modern readers who quite misinterpret it ) . I claimed at the outset that the psycho- analytic meaning had a special relation to all other meanings . It does ...
... story nor why the story has en- grossed five centuries of readers ( even some modern readers who quite misinterpret it ) . I claimed at the outset that the psycho- analytic meaning had a special relation to all other meanings . It does ...
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... story , the audience has to participate and make the story as it goes . And so , paradox- ically , pull the story line off any situation and you get a much higher level of creative participation on the part of the reader , or the ...
... story , the audience has to participate and make the story as it goes . And so , paradox- ically , pull the story line off any situation and you get a much higher level of creative participation on the part of the reader , or the ...
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... story contrasts two kinds of realness . That which is solid and undeniably there is also dreary ( the apartment ) , ugly ( the press ) , or fearful ( the ghost ) . That which vanishes ( the ghost ; the " wealth " ) or is elsewhere ( the ...
... story contrasts two kinds of realness . That which is solid and undeniably there is also dreary ( the apartment ) , ugly ( the press ) , or fearful ( the ghost ) . That which vanishes ( the ghost ; the " wealth " ) or is elsewhere ( the ...
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Literature as Transformation | 3 |
A Dictionary of Fantasy | 31 |
The Willing Suspension of Disbelief | 63 |
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