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... imagination ; and in line 12 , the world of the imagination is projected into the realm of real experience and physical action . Here is a vast , powerful drama between the lover's nature and the forces that compose the ambiguities of ...
... imagination ; and in line 12 , the world of the imagination is projected into the realm of real experience and physical action . Here is a vast , powerful drama between the lover's nature and the forces that compose the ambiguities of ...
Page 162
... imagination by a mermaid . For Balzac's narrator , however , the visible exposed half of the chimera is the true face of beauty and , at the same time , its ghastly parody . But the bottom half of the chimera , concealed beneath ...
... imagination by a mermaid . For Balzac's narrator , however , the visible exposed half of the chimera is the true face of beauty and , at the same time , its ghastly parody . But the bottom half of the chimera , concealed beneath ...
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... imagination is paralyzed by an aesthetic shock . His model for perfect beauty was only an illusion ; no real model could inspire a comparable image . No real woman , therefore , could ever satisfy him . In the imagination any physical ...
... imagination is paralyzed by an aesthetic shock . His model for perfect beauty was only an illusion ; no real model could inspire a comparable image . No real woman , therefore , could ever satisfy him . In the imagination any physical ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Ritual and Roleplaying in the World of the Hero | 11 |
Erotic Love and Egoism in the Age of Enlightenment | 117 |
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