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... gifts are not just gifts ; they are occasions to be matched and over - matched by counter - giving . The semantic shift in fairly shows this with great economy . That such a shift from ' kindly ' to ' equitably ' really is happening is ...
... gifts are not just gifts ; they are occasions to be matched and over - matched by counter - giving . The semantic shift in fairly shows this with great economy . That such a shift from ' kindly ' to ' equitably ' really is happening is ...
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... gifts from Timon . All , according to the Steward at III . iv . 50 , have been dined by Timon . But it remains untidily possible that some of them are simply creditors and therefore that they are genuinely ill used by Timon , in so far ...
... gifts from Timon . All , according to the Steward at III . iv . 50 , have been dined by Timon . But it remains untidily possible that some of them are simply creditors and therefore that they are genuinely ill used by Timon , in so far ...
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... gifts can become as urgently bound up with personal honour as is the dispensing of gifts . Marcel Mauss writes of the American Indians of the North West , ' One does not have the right to refuse a gift or potlatch . To do so would show ...
... gifts can become as urgently bound up with personal honour as is the dispensing of gifts . Marcel Mauss writes of the American Indians of the North West , ' One does not have the right to refuse a gift or potlatch . To do so would show ...
Contents
The Paragone | 3 |
Timon Among the Suitors | 17 |
One Playwright or Two? | 30 |
Copyright | |
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