... and noncausal bargaining enters into all our cooperative relationships with each other. Such bargaining can be illuminated by game theory and, in particular, by the version of prisoner's dilemma known as “Newcomb's problem.” Newcomb's problem models some of our most important relationships with each other...

... William Flesch calls the “puzzle of cooperation”—the way in which we bargain with a text even when the outcome is already determined and lies ahead in the pages that we have yet to read. (I’m interested in the role of repetition in this. Why do we engage in magical thinking even when we...

..., emerges as the hero of this book because his narrator's use of windows and mirrors and the narration of characters’ desires and inner thoughts do not make the same bargains with the reader that Eliot's and Trollope's do. While one may undoubtedly have pleasure in reading Hardy, it is not the pleasure...

... reading” (Galloway), and the “delirious reading” (Vadde) that undoes the fixity of reader and work to the “vicarious experience” of “non- causal bargaining” (Flesch) and the “sociocognitive complexity” entailed in imag- ining the minds of others (Zunshine), they rethink questions of reading, readings...

... be- JENNIFER RUTH I TESTING tween the extra-economic and the economic that the professional must strike. As Shuman explains in her opening chapter, "Bargain and sale threaten to devalue the literary man's intangible products, while placement beyond the market threatens to deny him access...

... rethinking of the dynamics of Romantic-age fiction in the bargain. Works Cited Jameson Fredric . The Antinomies of Realism . London : Verso , 2013 . Lukács Georg . “ Narrate or Describe? ” Writer and Critic and Other Essays . Trans. Kahn Arthur . London : Merlin , 1970...

... Crowd (1874), that between William Boldwood and Bathsheba Everdene. In the Corn Exchange scene, when Bathsheba takes on the man's role of bargaining and selling, Hardy uses a “thought report” (73) of men's watching her but characteristically does not give the reader access to her mind. Yet he uses...

... insight into hypnotic imi- tation. Lucile’s mannequins, however, add one other twist to this enthrallment because so infectious were their performances that they not only successfully pedaled the couturier’s creations but sold themselves into the bargain as well. As Lucile recounts, many a model...

... late in the novel, is an ambitious member of an Anglo-Irish family who has bargained with infernal forces to prolong his life (see Eagleton). As one character says, seeing Melmoth long after he believed him dead: “I am changed, but he is the same—Time seems to have forborne to touch him out...

...-since, by raising prices, and substantially reducing rents already contracted for, it improved the bargain which the tenant concluded for his land" (ER 26:144). The landlord, in turn, upped his rent when a lease came up for renewal, building on similarly inflated expectations. Tenant farmers...

... a prerevolutionary patrimonial wealth distribution: labor's bargaining power vanishing and assets increasingly concentrated in the hands of a tiny elite. Gone are opportunities for mobility across class lines that were opened up after World War II by the high value of labor and increasing educational opportunities...

..., written “in a spirit of retraction, to a lady with whom he had made a most advantageous bargain” (488). James underlines this oddity with anti-Semitism—calling it “a scruple rare enough in vendors of any class and almost unprecedented in the thrifty children of Israel” (488)—but the effect of the line...

... the potential for a democratic process of modernization that might include migrant subjects like Munoo. For this reason, the trade becomes central to the sense of stasis evoked by the novel's final sequence, during which India is imagined as a bargain for colonials like Mrs. Mainwaring: “India was the one place...

... or returned, quid pro quo barter or bargain, a draft choice for future considerations, that's how things usually work. A few dollars pass from hand to hand, wheels are set in motion, or stopped, or lost or forgotten or stamped, sealed, and delivered. My clients get by, get through. A sort...

... that “The ‘papers’ have, into the bargain, been mainly ill-natured and densely stupid and vulgar” (1: 228). But in several later letters he abandons these Arnoldian connotations of philistinism and vulgarity and instead uses “stupid” to refer to a lack of perceptual sensitivity—also counted among the word's...

... faction,” says the chief railway engineer [268]), play pivotal roles in the climactic events of the novel: the telegraph office alerts the Sulaco separatists that the rebel Sotillo and his troops are headed for them by sea; the O.S.N. helps to store and hide Sulaco's main bargaining chip, a shipment...

... conception of citizenship. These disproportionate bargains that precede citizenship remain especially concrete for Caroline, who was born without her left forearm. That disability is explained as the by-product of a drug administered to her mother during her arrest in a ‘‘sweatshop immigration raid...

...” was to liberate feelings and beliefs from the ends of an action, then the bargaining over who gets value out of this fantasized exposure marks an odd about-face. In Phineas's rendering, his “secret” has become a resource in a fantastic economy over which he imagines Laura to have more control. But this apparently...

... and indignation. The chapter in which a “mysterious form” invades the double chamber provides a strong example of this sequence. Anxiously watching, “she saw the door move . . . and perceived something enter the room” (261). The mysterious form reveals itself as Count Morano, who had previously bargained...

... with its own citizens, the wartime government of Ireland was “cautiously authoritarian” and conservative, restricting collective bargaining rights, removing legal protections for strikers, and reaffirming the centrality of Catholicism in Irish life ( Foster 562 ). 4 “[T]he story of the culmination...