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... readers . Immature readers seek only escape . * Even when they think they are reading for interpretation or some useful moral , they insist that what they read return them always some pleasant or exciting image of the world or some ...
... readers . Immature readers seek only escape . * Even when they think they are reading for interpretation or some useful moral , they insist that what they read return them always some pleasant or exciting image of the world or some ...
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... readers make a heavier demand for surprise than do experienced readers . The escape story supplies a surprise ending more frequently than does the interpre- tive . There are two ways by which the legitimacy and value of a surprise ...
... readers make a heavier demand for surprise than do experienced readers . The escape story supplies a surprise ending more frequently than does the interpre- tive . There are two ways by which the legitimacy and value of a surprise ...
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... readers to whom they will be familiar . The poet , in using an allusion as in using a figure of speech , is always in danger of not being understood . In appealing powerfully to one reader , he may lose another reader altogether . But ...
... readers to whom they will be familiar . The poet , in using an allusion as in using a figure of speech , is always in danger of not being understood . In appealing powerfully to one reader , he may lose another reader altogether . But ...
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Escape and Interpretation | 3 |
Thomas Wolfe The Child by Tiger | 24 |
Plot | 41 |
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