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... meaning ; it can be true to experience ; it need not generalize ; its discourse need be no more metaphorical than language at large . And it may bring one closer to a realization of how art does convey meaning . Since the word ' chorus ...
... meaning ; it can be true to experience ; it need not generalize ; its discourse need be no more metaphorical than language at large . And it may bring one closer to a realization of how art does convey meaning . Since the word ' chorus ...
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... meaning and to consider nothing else in a play is not remotely adequate criticism . But if we are to consider it at all , and to quote bits of it in support of our interpretations , we must determine how the testimony actually functions ...
... meaning and to consider nothing else in a play is not remotely adequate criticism . But if we are to consider it at all , and to quote bits of it in support of our interpretations , we must determine how the testimony actually functions ...
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... meaning but dull , timid and unimaginative cleric knows of the ecstasies of a sublime passion which the play , even if it succeeds in doing nothing else , succeeds in glorifying magnificently ' . " A harsh judgement , one may feel , on ...
... meaning but dull , timid and unimaginative cleric knows of the ecstasies of a sublime passion which the play , even if it succeeds in doing nothing else , succeeds in glorifying magnificently ' . " A harsh judgement , one may feel , on ...
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