At the age of 20 she graduated from Vassar College and began studying at Columbia University. ... After a year she was chosen as a degree candidate at Cornell University, after winning the prestigious Susan Lynn Sage Fellowship. ... Between 1905 and 1938, she published sixty-eight studies from the Vassar Psychological Laboratory. ... The Animal Mind, published in 1908, became the first book in the field of animal psychology. Washburm divorced consciousness from behavior, competing with the teachings of her early professor, Titchner. ...

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Prosecutor Pinard denounced the book, concerned that it would corrupt the public taste. ... This "form " that he speaks of refers to Flaubert's emancipation from matter, the genius aspect of his novel that is aside from the subject content. The novel does not present a purpose, theme, or message, but rather draws interest unto itself through style and imagination. It possesses its own form of life, which breathes through meticulously chosen words and sentence arrangements. ... In his letters to Louise Colet, he explains his plans for Madame Bovary: "What seems beautiful to me, what I sh...

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