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  • If we have at our disposal some method by which to decipher, appraise, refuse, subvert, or accept pictures knowingly through a demythifying and demystifying process, the kind of activity undertaken to accomplish this is not of the same character as that activity which strives for the comprehension of a text (477). back

    Shelley, Medusa, and the Perils of Ekphrasis 1996

  • His audacity, and Howells’s accommodation of it, may seem unremarkable to an America long since accustomed to the leveling of hierarchies, the demythifying of great artists and the complexities of their works, the triumph of careerism over apprenticeship to a tradition.

    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

  • His audacity, and Howells’s accommodation of it, may seem unremarkable to an America long since accustomed to the leveling of hierarchies, the demythifying of great artists and the complexities of their works, the triumph of careerism over apprenticeship to a tradition.

    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

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