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... perceived ? But a further di- lemma exists since on the level of experience at this moment , the two are indeed one . Small wonder , then , that in the ab- sence of a refined sense of perspective the eye as subject and object leads to a ...
... perceived ? But a further di- lemma exists since on the level of experience at this moment , the two are indeed one . Small wonder , then , that in the ab- sence of a refined sense of perspective the eye as subject and object leads to a ...
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... perceived . Like Lucrece in the second narrative poem , the poet describes himself as completely transparent and laid open to the young man's gaze : if only he peeps into the poet's eyes , he will see his own face depicted in the poet's ...
... perceived . Like Lucrece in the second narrative poem , the poet describes himself as completely transparent and laid open to the young man's gaze : if only he peeps into the poet's eyes , he will see his own face depicted in the poet's ...
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... perceived , where things yet again ' have the look of things that are looked at . ' To pursue this line of thought , we could say that the theory of extramission belonged to a world where the eye and the object had not yet been severed ...
... perceived , where things yet again ' have the look of things that are looked at . ' To pursue this line of thought , we could say that the theory of extramission belonged to a world where the eye and the object had not yet been severed ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | iii |
THE DARK LANTERN | 45 |
THE REFORMED EYE | 107 |
Copyright | |
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