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The emotion of the audience , its interest , its laughter , are part of the action of the play . It creates it in the same way as we through our senses from the objective data create the beauty of the sunrise and the peace of the sea .
The emotion of the audience , its interest , its laughter , are part of the action of the play . It creates it in the same way as we through our senses from the objective data create the beauty of the sunrise and the peace of the sea .
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I have tried to find out from the writers on æsthetics what it is in human nature that makes it possible for us to get the emotion of beauty and what exactly this emotion is . It is usual enough to talk of the aesthetic instinct : the ...
I have tried to find out from the writers on æsthetics what it is in human nature that makes it possible for us to get the emotion of beauty and what exactly this emotion is . It is usual enough to talk of the aesthetic instinct : the ...
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All this means that association , by likeness or contrast , enters largely into the æsthetic emotion . It is only association that can explain the æsthetic value of the ugly . I do not know that anyone has studied the effect of time on ...
All this means that association , by likeness or contrast , enters largely into the æsthetic emotion . It is only association that can explain the æsthetic value of the ugly . I do not know that anyone has studied the effect of time on ...
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| Title | The Summing Up |
| Author | William Somerset Maugham |
| Publisher | Literary Guild of America, 1938 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 3 Feb 2011 |
| Length | 310 pages |
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