... psychology literary Darwinism hyperbolic discounting preference distributed cognition bargaining References Addison Joseph [and Steele Richard ] 1729 The Spectator ( London : Tonson ). Ainslie George 2001 Breakdown of Will ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press...

... to “discount a writer’s own statements about his . . . intentions” is “only to make the (perhaps rather dramatic, but certainly conceivable) claim that the writer himself may have been self-deceiving about recognising his intentions, or incompetent at stating them. And this seems...

... Montesquieu’s early Lettres persanes with “initiating the generic hegemony of the epistolary novel over most of the century.” Claims for its cultural importance can be hyperbolic. For Lynn Hunt (2007: 39), thinking of Rousseau’s Julie, “Epistolary novels taught their readers nothing less than a evolution...

... The leaking of details of overseas defence equipment negotiations prior to formal agreements being signed . . . The threat from subversive and terrorist organ- izations, criminal activity, investigative journalists, and members of the public cannot be discounted Malicious 516 Poetics Today 41:4 software can...

... the arts. For that matter, a large subgrouping in these terms can appear reasonable per se, not a rhe- torical hyperbole. Thus, Shklovsky’s polarity is itself uncannily prophetic, in that it anticipates various divides and developments in the later history of the cinema. His own colleague Tynjanov...