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"A Case of Metaphysics": Counterfactuals, Realism, Great Expectations
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In this article, optative or counterfactual self-understanding both in general and as it shapes the narrative structure, moral psychology, and emotional logic of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations is discussed.Abstract:
This paper concerns optative or counterfactual self-understanding both in general and as it shapes the narrative structure, moral psychology, and emotional logic of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations. Who Pip is, in that novel, is thoroughly expressed by his understanding of who he is not; before anything else, he is not the sort of man Estella would love. In claiming that this optative self-understanding structures the narrative he authors, I also propose that it has internal and essential relations to realism more broadly.read more
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The Savage Mind
TL;DR: The Savage Mind as mentioned in this paper is the most comprehensive and profound book written by Levi-Strauss, and it is a most exciting intellectual exercise in which dialectic, wit, and imagination combine to stimulate and provoke at every page.