... arise out of these ways of coping: they give us incentives to cope, even as they express the fundamental psychological need felt by creatures who know their own mortality to cope with the fact that coping is ad hoc and fundamentally meaningless. We bargain wishfulness against knowledge and knowledge...

..., a subtitle which makes him shudder now. He is completing Body English,a book on fictions, emotions, and noncausal bargaining, and another book on the poetics of literary quotation. Angus Fletcher is a Professor of English and Core Faculty at Ohio State’s Project Narrative. He has published articles...

...Alan Richardson; Francis F. Steen © 2002 by the Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2002 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. Behn, Aphra 1687 The Lucky Chance; or, An Alderman's Bargain (London...

... Europeans. Roth shows Hapsburg imperial culture erected on a Faustian bargain: Czech speakers, Slovenes, and Jews renounce their languages and religious and cultural traditions to assimilate to a bureaucratized, hierarchical military culture—then are spread over the empire's vast expanses to keep...

...). 1682 [ESTC R39790] A New Vision of the Lady Gr—s, concerning Her Sister, the Lady Henrietta Berkeley (London: J. Smith). 1684 [ESTC R12977] Love-Letters between a Noble-Man and His Sister (London: n.n.). 1687 [ESTC R23614] The Lucky Chance; or, An Alderman's Bargain (London: W. Canning...

... in this extended sense. Although not bargained for in the parliamentary act that established the Truth Commission, psychoanalytic notions of trauma and healing have been implicated in these proceedings and even more strongly in critiques of their deficiencies as proceedings. Crewe • Black Hamlet...

...). It is with this title, subject, topic, or theme that Derrida has to negotiate, and as we ll see, he s going to drive a shrewd bargain. For, in exchange for minimally revising the programmatic title by dropping the conjunction in Life (and) Death, the seminar proposes to deconstruct this title and the authority...

... minaret or two in the interim. Of course there isn’t any interim. But you know that Harriet is brushing her hair in the sun, and Kanga- roo looking at huge sums of money on paper, and Jack fishing and Vicky flirting and Jaz bargaining, so what more do you want to know? We can’t...

... into a bargain with an unchaperoned maiden in a manner unbecoming of royalty. When he must backpedal from this lapse, his honor and reputation hang in the balance, hence the need for an exculpatory plot device. Rabindranath Tagore (2001: 250) offers an eloquent exegesis of this play by contrasting...

... with the written text). While the user does not generate content, he or she is inexorably ensnared in the paragonal bargaining of which medi- um or semiotic system or combination thereof is most adept at encoding and decoding Maud Wagner’s material and immaterial realities, that is, both her as subject...

... to that suspicion is that insofar as psychoanalysis understands people and their wishes, it already understands literature. This bargain recurs essentially unchanged in a remark of Andre´ Green s ([1986] 1997: 339): The text implies for the writer the desire to write, and the desire to be read, and for the reader...

..., David admits that he dreamt of her hair at night, which makes her feel “as if he cherished a sentimental affection for her a little warmer than she had bargained for” (316). Fire and Hemlock thus acknowledges the potential of an adult man whose interest in a young girl is inappropriate, but locates...

... , translated by Bray Barbara . London : William Collins Sons . Finney Jack . 1970 . Time and Again . New York : Touchstone . Flesch William . 2012 . “ Narrative and Noncausal Bargaining .” NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction 45 , no. 1 : 6 – 9 . Gans Eric . 1981...

... Saleem’s aunt Sonia adjures him (ibid.: 380). ‘‘Has his brain gone raw, janum Amina asks her husband of William Meth- wold; ‘‘is it safe to do bargains if he’s loony (ibid.: 96; raw brains also appear on 76, 163, and 375). Abuse and imprecations are fertile ground for 8. Bakhtin (1986: 120–21...

..., the roaring from the lion, yet the poem humorously and insistently gives us more image than we bargained for. What shall we do with the elephant on the roof if we are not simply to answer, as a certain wolf might a little red puella parvula, “the better to blare to you, my dear”? Once again, I take...

...) and that you give me this article. You give it me without setting a price on it. We strike no bargain about it. Now, I give this article to a third person who, after a certain lapse of time, decides to give me something as payment in return (utu). He makes a present to me...

... their authors, being self-conscious but restricted as well as unreliable; while in Gogol’s “A Diary of a Madman” or James’s “The Diary of a Man of Fifty” they are wholly unselfconscious into the bargain. Whatever logic or theology may lead us to expect, there are no package-deals in narration...

.... Vic is an ambitious social climber, who, only one year earlier, reached the position of managing director and has bargained for an expensive car to come with the position. It is a status symbol for him, and he is still feeling very satisfied at driving it to his work, making his entrance...

... working from the screenplay. The screenwriter usually gets either 35 percent of the novelization’s adjusted gross receipts or $23,800, while the novelizer, unless she or he has strong bargaining power, tends to get only a flat fee of around $15,000 (see Kent and Gotler 2006: 94). In addition...

... into a low, concrete, and tonally (as well as mimetically) violent style. Camillo begins bluntly enough, but already by his second and third lines he is softening and refining the low matter under discussion, courteously phrasing a hard and sordid bargain in terms of Cenci’s free ‘‘consent to yield...