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... answered , and perhaps the only answer that can , at present , be given is an answer in the negative — that is , one which seeks to demonstrate how an aesthetic should not proceed . We referred earlier to Marx's critique of critical ...
... answered , and perhaps the only answer that can , at present , be given is an answer in the negative — that is , one which seeks to demonstrate how an aesthetic should not proceed . We referred earlier to Marx's critique of critical ...
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... answer to the questions : why was one influence ( tradition / genre ) chosen , and why was it distorted in a ... answered if we focus our attention exclusively on either the literary context in isolation or the total social system . In ...
... answer to the questions : why was one influence ( tradition / genre ) chosen , and why was it distorted in a ... answered if we focus our attention exclusively on either the literary context in isolation or the total social system . In ...
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... answer to that question is , of course , to be found in the nature of the original Biblical myth itself . For whatever rationalised theology Milton himself may have subscribed to , the God of the Old Testament stubbornly remains a ...
... answer to that question is , of course , to be found in the nature of the original Biblical myth itself . For whatever rationalised theology Milton himself may have subscribed to , the God of the Old Testament stubbornly remains a ...
Contents
Acknowledgements | 7 |
The World Vision of Revolutionary Independency | 50 |
The English Revolutionary Crisis | 60 |
Copyright | |
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