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... whole range of adult emotions and experiences he cannot understand . " What's that man doing , Mommy ? " is a not inappropriate comment on the whole genre of " puzzling movies . " Typically , the child does not even have the words with ...
... whole range of adult emotions and experiences he cannot understand . " What's that man doing , Mommy ? " is a not inappropriate comment on the whole genre of " puzzling movies . " Typically , the child does not even have the words with ...
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... whole , Con- rad enlists us in his defensive action of " bringing to light a distinct , significant fact , " but does he make us feel the need for the de- fense ? In most of Conrad's works in which the characters sink into the moral ...
... whole , Con- rad enlists us in his defensive action of " bringing to light a distinct , significant fact , " but does he make us feel the need for the de- fense ? In most of Conrad's works in which the characters sink into the moral ...
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... whole character , clothes , features , manners , physique , and the rest ( as when we see adolescents live for a time as though they were Hamlet or Raskolnikov or Henry Aldrich ) . Our “ identification " with literary characters , then ...
... whole character , clothes , features , manners , physique , and the rest ( as when we see adolescents live for a time as though they were Hamlet or Raskolnikov or Henry Aldrich ) . Our “ identification " with literary characters , then ...
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Literature as Transformation | 3 |
A Dictionary of Fantasy | 31 |
The Willing Suspension of Disbelief | 63 |
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