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"Generosity Fiction."
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The giving tree
A young boy grows to manhood and old age experiencing the love and generosity of a tree which gives to him without thought of return.
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From Gift to Commodity
Fascinating analysis of the significance of the gift, and its increasingly complicated role in an emerging capitalist order, in nineteenth-century American fiction
In this rich interdisciplinary study, Hildegard Hoeller argues that nineteenth-century American culture was driven by and deeply occupied with the tension between gift and market exchange. Rooting her analysis in the period’s fiction, she shows how American novelists from Hannah Foster to Frank Norris grappled with the role of the gift based on trust, social bonds, and faith in an increasingly capitalist culture based on self-interest, market transactions, and economic reason. Placing the notion of sacrifice at the center of her discussion, Hoeller taps into the poignant discourse of modes of exchange, revealing central tensions of American fiction and culture.
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Star time
Gina wants more than anything to be the star of the show that her class will perform, but everything seems to go wrong until she makes a generous choice.
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Hwæt!: adaptive benefits of public displays of generosity and bravery in Beowulf
Costly signalling - along with other adaptive mechanisms, including reciprocity and kin selection - supports altruism in human societies. Because literary works can reflect the lives, motivations and ideals of real cultures, the same adaptive forces governing the actions of actual persons may drive the interactions depicted in these stories. Based on this reasoning, we analysed the interactions in the Old-English poem Beowulf, asking whether the beneficent behaviour exhibited by the characters functions as costly signalling or as exchange-based interactions. We found that both mechanisms play a role but costly signalling provides benefits beyond those from relationships based on exchange. Specifically, gift exchange promoted comrade allegiance but costly signalling additionally provided status increase to the signaller. Furthermore, boasting about oneself forged alliances whereas telling tales about the exploits of others increased speaker status. We show that hypotheses derived from evolutionary theory can be explored through quantitative text analyses of period-specific literature.
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Enough to go around : a story of generosity
When Kevin learns that not everyone has enough to eat, like the full meals he enjoys with his family every night, he organizes a food drive at school.
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Poetics before plato
Combining literary and philosophical analysis, this study defends an utterly innovative reading of the early history of poetics. It is the first to argue that there is a distinctively Socratic view of poetry and the first to connect the Socratic view of poetry with earlier literary tradition. Literary theory is usually said to begin with Plato's famous critique of poetry in the Republic. Grace Ledbetter challenges this entrenched assumption by arguing that Plato's earlier dialogues Ion, Protagoras, and Apology introduce a distinctively Socratic theory of poetry that responds polemically to traditional poets as rival theorists. Ledbetter tracks the sources of this Socratic response by introducing separate readings of the poetics implicit in the poetry of Homer, Hesiod, and Pindar. Examining these poets' theories from a new angle that uncovers their literary, rhetorical, and political aims, she demonstrates their decisive influence on Socratic thinking about poetry.
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Feathers for peacock
Relates how through the generosity of birds of all shapes and sizes Peacock was given the biggest, most colorful feather coat of all.
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A Response to Addie Bundren: Restoring Generosity to the Language of Civil Discourse in Marilynne Robinson's Lila
Although critics echo Marilynne Robinson's own preferences in highlighting similarities between her work and nineteenth-century American literature, doing so undercuts her attempts to revive contemporary public discourse by modeling dialogue across difference in her fiction. Such conversations are a major theme in her novel Lila, in which an elderly pastor and young migrant worker articulate the old wounds and cultural assumptions that derail their conversations, and yet choose to marry and continue seeking understanding. In Lila, Robinson also engages her immediate literary forebears in conversation, evoking William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying in order to resist the cynicism of his female protagonist. Although Robinson fears that a similar cynicism dominates her own era, she puts forth, through her titular character, a revival of the \"character of generosity\" she deems essential for contemporary public life.
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Harold loves his woolly hat
Harold's a very special bear who always wears a woolly hat, so when a crow steals the hat from him, he tries to win it back.
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Greed, Generosity, and other Problems with Unmarried Women's Property
This essay examines how blood ties motivate the financial choices of several unmarried women in Anthony Trollope's fiction. It both proposes a model for interpreting female economic agency that does not depend primarily upon sexual economies and suggests the significance of married women's property reform for relationships outside of marriage. The punitive plotlines I examine inThe Eustace Diamonds, Phineas Finn, Phineas Redux, andCan You Forgive Her?highlight the similar threats posed by single women's greed and generosity. By challenging principles of inheritance and heterosexual exchange, depriving the very families they claim to help of support, and creating unacceptable burdens for their male kin, these characters underscore contemporary fears and fantasies about the intrafamilial stakes of women's independent financial choices.
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