... , legendary or historical, constitute a definitive repertoire of human experience. We have seen then from the mediaeval belief in the reality of universals, "realism" had come to denote a belief in the individual apprehension of reality through the senses: similarly the term "original" which in the Middle Ages had meant "having existed from the first" came to mean "underived, independent, first-hand" and by time ... perspective: the plot had to be acted out by particular people particular circumstances, rather than, as had been common in the past, by general human types against a backgrou...

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