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She temporizes by describing external physical details--in much the same way as writers will describe how they have a special hut for writing in, or how long they work at their computers--and then she adds a plug for her dreams. Winfried Wehle discusses the "critical competition" between the "doctrinaire method" of the exemplum tradition and the "inductive relations-hermeneutic" of the novella: "[Moral obligation] is subject to a process [in the novella] that disturbs the sense of univocalness [Entvereindeueigung], a process which temporizes [verzeitlicht] historically the medieval tradition of figurative understanding in light of the 'epistemological' alternative of humanism. I'm a gardener, and these are sick plants," she temporizes. |
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