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... social life and culture , of which they are the symptomatic expression . The allegorical epics of medieval times ... social agreement as benevolent influences on literary forms is the business of a true sociology of literature . By true ...
... social life and culture , of which they are the symptomatic expression . The allegorical epics of medieval times ... social agreement as benevolent influences on literary forms is the business of a true sociology of literature . By true ...
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... social context . Human situations only stand out in relief against such a background of spiritual and social meanings , as we immediately apprehend in the subjects and plots of Elizabethan plays , or , equally strikingly , in Ibsen's ...
... social context . Human situations only stand out in relief against such a background of spiritual and social meanings , as we immediately apprehend in the subjects and plots of Elizabethan plays , or , equally strikingly , in Ibsen's ...
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... social . The sense of what is tragic or comic , the sense of romance , the impulse to convert , all rest on common feelings or commonly held beliefs . They do not exist in the purely private world ; they appear only in social contexts ...
... social . The sense of what is tragic or comic , the sense of romance , the impulse to convert , all rest on common feelings or commonly held beliefs . They do not exist in the purely private world ; they appear only in social contexts ...
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INTRODUCTION | 1 |
THE PRINCIPLE OF CHARACTERISTIC INTER page | 29 |
IMAGES AND FEELING | 32 |
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