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The lion and the mouse : narrated by the timid but truthful mouse
In this humorous retelling of the classic fable told by a mouse, Catnip is the bold mouse who is caught by the lion (she really should not have tried to jump over him)--but it is her timid twin sister Bitsy who finds the courage to fulfill her sister's promise, and chews through the net the lion gets caught in.
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Imagined futures: fictional expectations in the economy
Starting from the assumption that decision situations in economic contexts are characterized by fundamental uncertainty, this article argues that the decision-making of intentionally rational actors is anchored in fictions. \"Fictionality\" in economic action is the inhabitation in the mind of an imagined future state of the world and the beliefs in causal mechanisms leading to this future state. Actors are motivated in their actions by the imagined future and organize their activities based on these mental representations. Since these representations are not confined to empirical reality, fictional expectations are also a source of creativity in the economy. Fictionality opens up a way to an understanding of the microfoundations of the dynamics of the economy. The article develops the notion of fictional expectations. It discusses the role of fictional expectations for the dynamics of the economy and addresses the question of how fictional expectations motivate action. The last part relates the notion of fiction to calculation and social macrostructures, especially institutions and cultural frames. The conclusion hints at the research program developing from the concept of fictional expectations.
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The promise
On a mean street in a mean, broken city, a young girl tries to snatch an old woman's bag. But the frail old woman, holding on with the strength of heroes, says the thief can't have it without giving something in return: the promise, which is the beginning of a journey that will change the thieving girl's life--and a chance to change the world, for good.
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White Diaspora
This is the first book to analyze our suburban literary tradition. Tracing the suburb's emergence as a crucial setting and subject of the twentieth-century American novel, Catherine Jurca identifies a decidedly masculine obsession with the suburban home and a preoccupation with its alternative--the experience of spiritual and emotional dislocation that she terms \"homelessness.\" In the process, she challenges representations of white suburbia as prostrated by its own privileges.
In novels as disparate asTarzan(written by Tarzana, California, real-estate developer Edgar Rice Burroughs), Richard Wright'sNative Son, and recent fiction by John Updike and Richard Ford, Jurca finds an emphasis on the suburb under siege, a place where the fortunate tend to see themselves as powerless. From Babbitt to Rabbit, the suburban novel casts property owners living in communities of their choosing as dispossessed people. Material advantages become artifacts of oppression, and affluence is fraudulently identified as impoverishment. The fantasy of victimization reimagines white flight as a white diaspora.
Extending innovative trends in the study of nineteenth-century American culture, Jurca's analysis suggests that self-pity has played a constitutive role in white middle-class identity in the twentieth century. It breaks new ground in literary history and cultural studies, while telling the story of one of our most revered and reviled locations: \"the little suburban house at number one million and ten Volstead Avenue\" that Edith Wharton warned would ruin American life and letters.
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Pinkie promise
After Pinkalicious uses all of Alison's pink paint in class, she wonders how she can repay her best friend.
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Learning from Fiction and Theories of Fictional Content
En este artículo presento una objeción a la teoría del contenido ficcional conocida como 'intencionalismo hipotético'. Se centra en el hecho de que ciertas oraciones que aparecen en contextos de fictión pueden implicar verdades ficcionales y, a la vez, transmitir testimonios para que sean creídos por el lector. Defiendo que el intencionalismo hipotético no puede fácilmente dar sentido este hecho, mientras que sí puede hacerlo un rival suyo, el intencionalismo del autor. In this paper I present an objection to the theory of fictional content known as 'hypothetical intentionalism'. It centres around the fact that certain sentences in fictions can both imply fictional truths and convey testimony, to be believed by the reader. I argue that hypothetical intentionalism cannot easily make sense of this fact; whereas actual author intentionalism (a rival to hypothetical intentionalism) can.
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