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Most people assume that things make sense. If they do not appear to be making sense we do our utmost to make them sensible. Making things sensible is made possible by relating texts to a set of enabling conventions. Different enabling conventions will make different sensibilities and different sensibilities create different realities/fictions.
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© 1991 David Ian Birch
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Birch, D. (1991). Making Sense. In: The Language of Drama. The Language of Literature. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21459-4_2
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