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A Ricoeur Reader: Reflection and Imagination

Edited by Mario J. Vald4s

UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS Toronto and Buffalo

Ricoeur Reader Ploo.' 1958)'p 233 ude llvi-S tra uss, / nthtopologie structulal? (Paris: , claire J acobson aoo by rans' n!.lish translatioD: Srru curu! AnLhropology, s"loepf (Harmoodsworth: Peoguir Books' 1968)' t

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Word, PolysemY, MetaPhor: Creativity in Language

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