Sensory imagination and narrative perspective: Explaining perceptual focalization

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Sensory imagination and narrative perspective : Explaining perceptual focalization. / Grünbaum, Thor.

I: Semiotica, Nr. 194, 2013, s. 111-136.

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Grünbaum, T 2013, 'Sensory imagination and narrative perspective: Explaining perceptual focalization', Semiotica, nr. 194, s. 111-136. https://doi.org/10.1515/sem-2013-0024

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Grünbaum, T. (2013). Sensory imagination and narrative perspective: Explaining perceptual focalization. Semiotica, (194), 111-136. https://doi.org/10.1515/sem-2013-0024

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Grünbaum T. Sensory imagination and narrative perspective: Explaining perceptual focalization. Semiotica. 2013;(194):111-136. https://doi.org/10.1515/sem-2013-0024

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Grünbaum, Thor. / Sensory imagination and narrative perspective : Explaining perceptual focalization. I: Semiotica. 2013 ; Nr. 194. s. 111-136.

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