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Thomas Harrison

"Most film directors do not come up with their own subjects or write their own screenplays."

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"Most film directors do not come up with their own subjects or write their own screenplays."

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"With the question of the effect of a poem, the topic of investigation shifts from that of textual autonomy to textual reception - to the issue of what we actually look for or find in reading a poem."
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"In an age where history is recorded on T-shirts, the very notion of dwelling on the deep structure of an experience has come to appear both arcane and archaic."
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