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Jerry Farber. What frames a novel ? Unlike a musical scale , language does not , by the mere fact of its presence , serve to detach a work from its practical context . And the patterning a novel offers , unlike that in painting or even ...
Jerry Farber. What frames a novel ? Unlike a musical scale , language does not , by the mere fact of its presence , serve to detach a work from its practical context . And the patterning a novel offers , unlike that in painting or even ...
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... novel or a film than an emotional roller- coaster ride is to limit radically its aesthetic potential . We end up impatient with anything that doesn't advance the action or give us an emotional jolt - preferably both . And the ...
... novel or a film than an emotional roller- coaster ride is to limit radically its aesthetic potential . We end up impatient with anything that doesn't advance the action or give us an emotional jolt - preferably both . And the ...
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... novel could be studied solely for the information it provided about the author's life . But the novel , if it's any good , is much more likely than the history book to be read as fiction , because the author's literary technique does ...
... novel could be studied solely for the information it provided about the author's life . But the novel , if it's any good , is much more likely than the history book to be read as fiction , because the author's literary technique does ...
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Preface | 1 |
The Empathic Focus | 7 |
Resonant Relationships | 95 |
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