10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WORLD OF ONE'S OWN»
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world of one's own in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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... number of her epigraphical bearings from Robinson Crusoe, thus associating
her 'enterprise' with that of the ultimate masculine hero of active self-making and
sheer survival in an exotic and far-flung world of one's own. She seems to extend
...
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The American Heritage Dictionary
of Idioms, Second Edition
in She was queen in her own right, but has been used more loosely since about
1600. in one's own world Also, in one's own little world; in a world of one's own. In
deep thought or concentration. For example, Luanne was really in her own ...
The mobile is both a funnel, used for straining the world into a world of one's own,
and also an accelerator with which one speeds up, controls and organises the
world's approach. With it one gets more, gives up less and stretches one's own ...
Jukka Groncow, Alan Warde, 2013
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Samuel Beckett's Endgame
Beckett has spoken about Endgame as “pure play” (qtd in McMillan 14), and has
commented on the chess analogy: One must make a world of one's own in order
to satisfy one's need to know, to understand, one's need for order [....] There for ...
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From Insanity to Esctasy
One lives in a world of one's own. Almost as if one were autistic. Such is the
sadness of schizophrenia. What is a schizophrenic supposed to believe, if he
cannot trust his own senses? He does what I have done if he is tough enough.
He goes ...
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The Collected Works
of L. S. Vygotsky: Child Psychology
Because of this, only with the formation of concepts does an intensive
development of self-perception, self- observation, intensive cognition of internal
activity, the world of one's own experiences, occur. According to the correct note
of W ...
Lev Semenovich Vygotskiĭ, Robert W. Rieber, Aaron S. Carton, 1998
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General Knowledge
of English Literature
In a world of one's own—in a makebelieve world of one's own, in a world of
fantasy. To come down in the world—to loseone's professional and social
standing. To make one's way inthe world/tomake one's way—to advance in one's
job. A man ...
In a crazy world of one's own. Out of touch with life. Out of touch with everything,
save one's own precious delusions. One's own emptiness. This is madness. This
is schizophrenia. Deep within the furnace of one's own precocious desires 72.
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Subcultural Theory: Traditions and Concepts
... other words to “participate” in a conception of the world “imposed”
mechanically by external environment . . . or is it preferable to work out one's own
conception of the world consciously and critically, and so out of this world of one's
own brain ...
J. Patrick Williams, 2013
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The Tragic Myth: Lorca and Cante Jondo
More than a style of music or dance, this attitude represents an "integral way of
feeling the cosmos and the small world of one's own personality."1 To a certain
degree, the characters of the Romancero gitano incarnate such a vital posture,
but ...
