Contracts Of Fiction
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The Contracts Of Fiction
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Author : Ellen Spolsky
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2015
The Contracts Of Fiction written by Ellen Spolsky and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This title considers the advantages of describing fictions as governed by a set of social contracts. It combines current cognitive research with attention to the historical context of works of imagination to argue against the claim that fictions corrupt clear thinking and provide, at best, inert pleasures. The chapters explore the different ways creative work in media from statues to stage plays helps to maintain cultural homeostasis. Like the social contracts of law, language, kinship, and money, the social contracts of fiction are constructed and continually revised within communities.
Contracts Of Fiction
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Author : Ellen Spolsky
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2015-03-31
Contracts Of Fiction written by Ellen Spolsky and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-03-31 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Contracts of Fiction reconnects our fictional worlds to the rest of our lives. Countering the contemporary tendency to dismiss works of imagination as enjoyable but epistemologically inert, the book considers how various kinds of fictions construct, guide, and challenge institutional relationships within social groups. The contracts of fiction, like the contracts of language, law, kinship, and money, describe the rules by which members of a group toggle between tokens and types, between their material surroundings - the stuff of daily life - and the abstractions that give it value. Rethinking some familiar literary concepts such as genre and style from the perspective of recent work in the biological, cognitive, and brain sciences, the book displays how fictions engage bodies and minds in ways that help societies balance continuity and adaptability. Being part of a community means sharing the ways its members use stories, pictures, plays and movies, poems and songs, icons and relics, to generate usable knowledge about the people, objects, beliefs and values in their environment. Exposing the underlying structural and processing homologies among works of imagination and life processes such as metabolism and memory, Ellen Spolsky demonstrates the seamless connection of life to art by revealing the surprising dependence of both on disorder, imbalance, and uncertainty. In early modern London, for example, reformed religion, expanding trade, and changed demographics made the obsolescent courts a source of serious inequities. Just at that time, however, a flood of wildly popular revenge tragedies, such as Hamlet, by their very form, by their outrageous theatrical grotesques, were shouting the need for change in the justice system. A sustained discussion of the genre illustrates how biological homeostasis underpins the social balance that we maintain with difficulty, and how disorder itself incubates new understanding.
The Contract
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Author : Gerald Seymour
language : en
Publisher: Ace Books
Release Date : 1983-10-01
The Contract written by Gerald Seymour and has been published by Ace Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1983-10-01 with Fiction categories.
In order to redeem himself, a discredited former British officer undertakes the dangerous task of helping a scientist escape from East Germany, the failure of which mission could lead to war
The Letter Of The Contract Classic Reprint
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Author : Basil King
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015-07-06
The Letter Of The Contract Classic Reprint written by Basil King and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-06 with Fiction categories.
Excerpt from The Letter of the Contract Everything that morning, when she came to think of it, had something of the force of fate. Why, on entering the drawing-room, hadn't she gone straight to her desk, according to her in tention, if it wasn't that fate intervened? As a matter of fact, she went to the oriel window looking down into Fifth Avenue, with vague thoughts of the weather. It was one of those small Scotch corner windows that show you both sides of the street at once. It was so much the favorite conning-spot of the family that she advanced to it from habit. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Letter Of The Contract
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Author : Basil King
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-08-23
The Letter Of The Contract written by Basil King and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-23 with Fiction categories.
The Friendship Contract
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Author : Mia Heintzelman
language : en
Publisher: Levi Lynn Books
Release Date : 2022-02-04
The Friendship Contract written by Mia Heintzelman and has been published by Levi Lynn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-04 with categories.
FRIENDS TO LOVERS ROMANCE NOVEL
Partners By Contract
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Author : Kim Lawrence
language : en
Publisher: Harlequin
Release Date : 2015-02-15
Partners By Contract written by Kim Lawrence and has been published by Harlequin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-02-15 with Fiction categories.
Dr Phoebe Miller was settling in well to her new practice—untilsenior partner Dr Connor Carlyle returned from his holiday and sparksbegan to fly between them! The tension wasn't just professional: itwas definitely personal… Conno was Phoebe's first love, but years ago she'd been forced toaccept he was bound to another woman. Her sister. Connor was now free,though, and he wasn't letting Phoebe disappear from his life again. Hewas determined to keep her as his partner at the practice—and forlife!
A Civil Contract
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Author : Georgette Heyer
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2011-02-28
A Civil Contract written by Georgette Heyer and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-28 with Fiction categories.
If you love Bridgerton, you'll love Georgette Heyer! 'The greatest writer who ever lived' ANTONIA FRASER '[My] generation's Julia Quinn' ADJOA ANDOH, star of Bridgerton 'One of my perennial comfort authors. Heyer's books are as incisively witty and quietly subversive as any of Jane Austen's' JOANNE HARRIS _____________ Adam Deveril returns from the Peninsula War a hero, only to find his family on the brink of ruin and his much-loved ancestral home mortgaged to the hilt. It is Lord Oversley, father of Adam's first love, who introduces him to Mr. Chaleigh, a City man of apparently unlimited wealth, with his eyes firmly fixed on a suitable match for his one and only beloved daughter. Though this civil contract may work on paper, saving one from ruin and bringing the other desired social status, there is only one way to find out if it can really work . . . _____________ 'Elegant, witty and rapturously romantic' KATIE FFORDE 'Utterly delightful' GUARDIAN 'Absolutely delicious tales of Regency heroes. . . Utter, immersive escapism' SOPHIE KINSELLA 'Georgette Heyer's Regency romances brim with elegance, wit and historical accuracy, and this is one of her finest and most entertaining ... Escapism of the highest order' DAILY MAIL 'If you haven't read Georgette Heyer yet, what a treat you have in store!' HARRIET EVANS _____________ Readers love A Civil Contract ... ***** 'A wonderful tale - recommended for those who want some variation in the romances they read.' ***** 'A Civil Contract is a departure from her usual formula, and it knocked my socks off.' ***** 'Very touching, with a dose of humour.' ***** 'One of my all-time favourites among her many brilliant and enduring books.' ***** 'Amazingly good characters, lots of interior dialogue and character development, lots of humour.'
The Contract
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Author : JM Gulvin
language : en
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Release Date : 2017-04-04
The Contract written by JM Gulvin and has been published by Faber & Faber this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-04 with Fiction categories.
In New Orleans, Texas Ranger John Q is out of his jurisdiction, and possibly out of his depth. It seems everyone in Louisiana wants to send him home, and every time he asks questions there's trouble: from the pharmacist to the detective running scared to the pimp who turned to him as a last resort. Before John Q knows it, he looks the only link between a series of murders.So who could be trying to set him up, and why, and who can he turn to in a city where Southern tradition and family ties rule?Infused with the rhythms of its iconic setting, The Contract is a thriller to keep even the most seasoned crime readers gripped and guessing all the way to its endgame.
I Love You Subject To The Following Terms And Conditions
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Author : Erin Lyon
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Release Date : 2017-01-10
I Love You Subject To The Following Terms And Conditions written by Erin Lyon and has been published by Macmillan + ORM this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-10 with Fiction categories.
In a world where marriage doesn’t exist—only seven-year contracts—you don’t marry, you sign. You don’t divorce, you breach. And sometimes, you just expire. Kate is struggling to find her footing. She gave up a career she hated to pursue the law, and now she’s buried in debt and unemployed. At least she’s signed to an amazing guy—hot, sweet, and committed. Enter the contract killer, the man who pursues only signed women. No commitment, no hassle, all the fun. But Kate has enough fun on her plate... until her partner doesn’t re-up their contract. After an epic but well-deserved meltdown, Kate gets practical. She accepts a job with her uncle’s law firm, practicing signing law—the one type of law she swore she’d never do. And the contract killer? Now that Kate is single, she’s no longer his type, but he still wants to be friends. Yeah, that’ll work. Kate may be heartbroken, but she’s not impervious to this sexy, smart, and complex man. But hey, it looks like he may not be impervious to her either—signed or not. With biting wit and charm, I Love You Subject to the Following Terms and Conditions is hilariously relatable, for the millennial set. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.