Another thought about the setting is that it speaks about 'space', personal and private space as opposed to public and social space. Males control the space of society by their presence. They hold more jobs, more prominent roles, they 'own' public space --- by having such dominance in society because they are men. ... When questioned about his "missus" he replies "what about my missus" - preserving his independence was the following line. ... In this paragraph he answers Harry "if my wife lay about like that, for everyone to see, I"d soon stop her". ...

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The speaker remarks that the thought of those "forms of beauty" described above created in him sensations of peace and tranquility in the midst of everyday strife: "mid the din / Of towns and cities, I have owed to them, / In hours of weariness, sensations sweet, / Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart, / And passing even into my purer mind / With tranquil restoration" (27-31). ...

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Under the anthropological problem we have the problem of Reality, Nature of Reality, Appearance and Reality, Change and Permanence, Space and Time, Causality, Freedom and Determinism and the Mind-Body problem. ... On the other hand, Substance Dualism (or Cartesian Dualism) argues that the mind is an independently existing substance the mental does not have extension in space, and the material cannot think. ...

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Though I share Phillips's belief that "we need to cure ecocriticism of its fundamentalist fixation on literal representation," the larger theory and critique of ecocriticism of the sort he pursues is beyond my scope here. (8) Rather, in paying greater attention to the sort of ecological literacy or, less anachronistically, the natural history writing and thinking that emerge in Emerson as it does in Thoreau, I will be arguing that both writers complicate the assumption that the literal and literary senses of things can be separated irreducibly in this way. ... On my reading, Emerson has...

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