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213 pages, Hardcover
First published July 1, 2006
If one says that X influenced Y it does seem that one is saying that X did something to Y rather than that Y did something to X…If we think of Y rather than X as the agent, the vocabulary is much richer and more attractively diversified: drawn on, resort to, adapt, pick up, absorb, assimilate, address, paraphrase, elaborate on…(quoted from Patterns of Intention: On the Historical Explanation of Pictures).