The letter that gives life: Magic, writing, and the teaching of writing
Magic, writing, rhetoric, and poetry have been associated from their beginnings. Today, in the throes of a rationalistic view of language, we see words as having an arbitrary relationship to things, as transcriptions of an objective reality. But language actually operates as a tension between magic...
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ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst
2002
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| Online Access: | https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3056285 |