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Literary studies still lack an extensive comparative analysis of different kinds of literature, including ancient and non-Western. How Literary Worlds Are Shaped. A Comparative Poetics of Literary Imagination aims to provide such a study. Literature, it claims, is based on individual and shared human imagination, which creates literary worlds that blend the real and the fantastic, mimesis and genre, often modulated by different kinds of unreliability. The main building blocks of literary worlds are their oral, visual and written modes and three themes: challenge, perception and relation. They are blended and inflected in different ways by combinations of narratives and figures, indirection, thwarted aspirations, meta-usages, hypothetical action as well as hierarchies and blends of genres and text types. Moreover, literary worlds are not only constructed by humans but also shape their lives and reinforce their sense of wonder. Finally, ten reasons are given in order to show how this comparative view can be of use in literary studies. In sum, How Literary Worlds Are Shaped is the first study to present a wide-ranging and detailed comparative account of the makings of literary worlds.

Comparative literature --- Literary rhetorics --- Literatur --- Imagination --- Poetics. --- Imagination (Philosophy) --- Themes, motives. --- Imagination. --- Imagery, Mental --- Images, Mental --- Mental imagery --- Mental images --- Educational psychology --- Intellect --- Psychology --- Reproduction (Psychology) --- Literary worlds. --- comparative poetics. --- literary imagination.

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This book is designed as a tribute and response to Yvonne Vera's famous novel 'Butterfly Burning', which is set in the Bulawayo townships in 1946 and dedicated to the author. It is an attempt to explore what historical research and reconstruction can add to the literary imagination. Responding as it does to a novel, this history imitates some fictional modes. Two of its chapters are in effect 'scenes', dealing with brief periods of intense activity. Others are in effect biographies of 'characters'. The book draws upon and quotes from a rich body of urban oral memory. In addition to this historical/literary interaction the book is a contribution to the historiography of southern African cities, bringing out the experiential and cultural dimensions, and combining black and white urban social history. TERENCE RANGER is Emeritus Rhodes Professor of Race Relations, University of Oxford. Zimbabwe: Weaver Press.

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"The Essential Hirschman brings together some of the finest essays in the social sciences, written by one of the twentieth century's most influential and provocative thinkers. Albert O. Hirschman was a master essayist, one who possessed the rare ability to blend the precision of economics with the elegance of literary imagination. In an age in which our academic disciplines require ever-greater specialization and narrowness, it is rare to encounter an intellectual who can transform how we think about inequality by writing about traffic, or who can slip in a quote from Flaubert to reveal something surprising about taxes. The essays gathered here span an astonishing range of topics and perspectives, including industrialization in Latin America, imagining reform as more than repair, the relationship between imagination and leadership, routine thinking and the marketplace, and the ways our arguments affect democratic life. Throughout, we find humor, unforgettable metaphors, brilliant analysis, and elegance of style that give Hirschman such a singular voice.Featuring an introduction by Jeremy Adelman that places each of these essays in context as well as an insightful afterword by Emma Rothschild and Amartya Sen, The Essential Hirschman is the ideal introduction to Hirschman for a new generation of readers and a must-have collection for anyone seeking his most important writings in one book"--

Industrialization. --- Economists --- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / General. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Essays. --- Industrial development --- Economic development --- Economic policy --- Deindustrialization --- Hirschman, Albert O. --- Hirschmann, Otto A. --- Хиршман, Альберт Отто --- Khirshman, Alʹbert Otto --- He-xi-man, A-er-bo-te O. --- 赫希曼, 阿尔伯特 O. --- Economics --- Economists - United States --- Industrialization --- Hirschman, Albert Otto, - 1915-2012 --- A Bias for Hope. --- Albert O. Hirschman. --- Colombian violence. --- European integration. --- James L. Payne. --- John Womack. --- Latin America. --- Mexican revolution. --- North American social science. --- William Arthur Lewis. --- analogical structures. --- apprehension. --- balanced growth. --- behavior. --- capitalism. --- capitalist development. --- citizens' voice. --- cognitive style. --- competition. --- complex phenomena. --- consumer goods. --- creativity. --- cumulative change. --- customs unions. --- democracy. --- democratic life. --- development economics. --- development theories. --- development. --- doux-commerce thesis. --- economic development. --- economic discourse. --- economic forces. --- economic integration. --- economics. --- emotions. --- enlarged political economy. --- envy. --- essays. --- explicit models of possibilities. --- feudal-shackles thesis. --- freedom. --- growth sectors. --- identity. --- import-substituting industrialization. --- income inequality. --- indifference. --- industrial growth. --- industrialization. --- inequality. --- intellectual leadership. --- intellectual. --- interest. --- late-late industrializing. --- linkage approach. --- linkage effects. --- literary imagination. --- little traditions. --- love. --- major polemical maneuvers. --- market society. --- marketplace. --- micro-Marxism. --- models. --- modern capitalist society. --- mutual-benefit claim. --- neo-Marxism. --- opinionated opinions. --- opinions. --- orthodox monoeconomics. --- paradigms. --- perception of change. --- personal welfare. --- perverse effect. --- political economy. --- political forces. --- political integration. --- political leadership. --- political participation. --- political power. --- political protest. --- political science. --- politics of integration. --- preference changes. --- primary exports. --- production. --- progressives. --- psychological effects. --- psychology. --- quality of life. --- reaction. --- reactive movements. --- real change. --- reformers. --- routine thinking. --- self-destruction thesis. --- self-interest. --- simple explanations. --- social change. --- social phenomena. --- social science. --- social sciences. --- sociopolitical consequences. --- staples. --- state power. --- statecraft. --- strong opinions. --- structural causes. --- theorizing. --- tunnel effect. --- underdevelopment. --- une conomie politique largie.