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Page 77
... reader is not listening to an authoritative account of the world delivered by an expert ( Faulkner on Mississippi , Hemingway on the corrida ) but bumping into something that is there , like a rock or a refrigerator . " 35 More actively ...
... reader is not listening to an authoritative account of the world delivered by an expert ( Faulkner on Mississippi , Hemingway on the corrida ) but bumping into something that is there , like a rock or a refrigerator . " 35 More actively ...
Page 100
... reader that the event had taken place or that it's a large historical process , hence that there's no direct threat to the reader . Fiction assaults the reader directly as if saying : It is about you . You are actually creating this ...
... reader that the event had taken place or that it's a large historical process , hence that there's no direct threat to the reader . Fiction assaults the reader directly as if saying : It is about you . You are actually creating this ...
Page 133
... reader can formulate the answers in his mind " ( p . 150 ) . The full reality of the writer's fic- tional construct is effectively transcribed , and the reader is given the chance to receive a truly unexpurgated text . Federman weighs ...
... reader can formulate the answers in his mind " ( p . 150 ) . The full reality of the writer's fic- tional construct is effectively transcribed , and the reader is given the chance to receive a truly unexpurgated text . Federman weighs ...
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