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Defective Inspectors: Crime-fiction Pastiche in Late
Twentieth-century French Literature
This major reference book provides an authoritative analysis and
survey of consumer research and economic psychology. It provides an
international, in-depth overview of the present state of knowledge
and theory which will be indispensable to students, researchers and
practitioners. The Companion presents over 100 specially
commissioned entries on important topics in consumer research and
economic psychology from behaviourism and brand loyalty to trust
and the psychology of tourism. Leading scholars in the fields
provide stimulating insights into the area as well as summarising
existing knowledge. Readers will find entries both on new topics
that have rarely been considered in the framework of consumer
research or economic psychology and on topics that have long been
considered important in these disciplines. The book will ably meet
the needs of undergraduate and graduate students in business
administration, economics, marketing and psychology, as well as
informing researchers and practitioners in those disciplines.
"My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop. I exist because I
think... and I can't stop myself from thinking." - Jean-Paul
Sartre, Nausea Writing the Mind: Representing Consciousness from
Proust to Darrieussecq explores the works of seven ground-breaking
thinkers and novelists of recent history to compare and contrast
the varying representations of the conscious and the unconscious
mind. Grounding his study in the writings of philosophers like
Jean-Paul Sartre and Marcel Proust, Simon Kemp explores the
non-literary influences of science, faith and philosophy as
presented in their works, demonstrates how writers learn from and
sometimes deviate from preceding generations, and how they agree or
disagree with their peers. Kemp's elegant study also charts the
rise and wane of Freudian influence on literature through the
twentieth century, and the emergence of cognitive and neo-Darwinian
ideas at the dawn of the twenty-first. In the work of these seven
writers, we discover radically different understandings of how
consciousness and the unconscious mind are constituted, which are
the most salient characteristics of mental life, and even what it
is that defines a mind at all.
"My thought is me: that is why I cannot stop. I exist because I
think... and I can't stop myself from thinking." - Jean-Paul
Sartre, Nausea Writing the Mind: Representing Consciousness from
Proust to Darrieussecq explores the works of seven ground-breaking
thinkers and novelists of recent history to compare and contrast
the varying representations of the conscious and the unconscious
mind. Grounding his study in the writings of philosophers like
Jean-Paul Sartre and Marcel Proust, Simon Kemp explores the
non-literary influences of science, faith and philosophy as
presented in their works, demonstrates how writers learn from and
sometimes deviate from preceding generations, and how they agree or
disagree with their peers. Kemp's elegant study also charts the
rise and wane of Freudian influence on literature through the
twentieth century, and the emergence of cognitive and neo-Darwinian
ideas at the dawn of the twenty-first. In the work of these seven
writers, we discover radically different understandings of how
consciousness and the unconscious mind are constituted, which are
the most salient characteristics of mental life, and even what it
is that defines a mind at all.
The last ten years have seen an enormous surge of interest in
issues that are common to psychology and economics. How do people
make decisions about economic issues? How should they make such
decisions? Does public policy or regulation succeed in its aim of
helping people make these decisions? What situations aid
cooperation? This volume explores some of the ways in which
economists and psychologists have tried to answer these questions.
The authors are an international mix of economists and
psychologists, and as such they demonstrate a diverse range of
approaches to tackling different aspects of these issues. This is a
frontier area for both psychology and economics, and consequently
it is relatively free, lawless and, above all, exciting. This
collection reflects the diversity and energy that characterise this
rapidly growing interdisciplinary field. This book was originally
published as a special issue of New Zealand Economic Papers.
This book explores whether the ideology of communism was doomed to
failure due to psychological rather than structural flaws. Does
communism fail because there is not enough individual incentive and
does it discourage psychological ownership? If so, does it produce
learned helplessness and therefore empower evil? This book
considers such questions, both with respect to how communism
actually functioned and how it could have functioned using examples
from Eastern Europe and the USSR itself during the 20th century. It
reviews both the ideology of communism and its history, as well as
the basic but difficult question of how one might decide whether an
economic system can be defined as successful or not.
This major reference book provides an authoritative analysis and
survey of consumer research and economic psychology. It provides an
international, in-depth overview of the present state of knowledge
and theory which will be indispensable to students, researchers and
practitioners. The Companion presents over 100 specially
commissioned entries on important topics in consumer research and
economic psychology from behaviourism and brand loyalty to trust
and the psychology of tourism. Leading scholars in the fields
provide stimulating insights into the area as well as summarising
existing knowledge. Readers will find entries both on new topics
that have rarely been considered in the framework of consumer
research or economic psychology and on topics that have long been
considered important in these disciplines. The book will ably meet
the needs of undergraduate and graduate students in business
administration, economics, marketing and psychology, as well as
informing researchers and practitioners in those disciplines.
Get to grips with set texts and be fully prepared for the AS/A
Level exam with the Modern Languages Oxford Literature Companions.
The Companions are written by experienced lecturers, teachers and
examiners and provide comprehensive coverage of characters, themes,
plot, language and context with activities in French to consolidate
your knowledge of the text. There are also extensive sections on
exam preparation and response planning, with a bank of annotated
sample answers and practice questions. This guide covers L'etranger
by Albert Camus. Modern Languages Oxford Literature Companions are
also available for selected Spanish and German set texts.
The French novel's "return to the story" in the last decades of the
twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first is has been
widely acknowledged in literary scholarship. But is this assessment
accurate? With "French Fiction in the Twenty-First Century, "Simon
Kemp looks at the work of five contemporary writers--Annie Ernaux,
Pascal Quignard, Marie Darrieussecq, Jean Echenoz, and Patrick
Modiano--in the context of the current French literary scene, and
examines how far they pursue the innovations of their predecessors
and just how far they have turned their backs on the era of
experiment.
This book explores whether the ideology of communism was doomed to
failure due to psychological rather than structural flaws. Does
communism fail because there is not enough individual incentive and
does it discourage psychological ownership? If so, does it produce
learned helplessness and therefore empower evil? This book
considers such questions, both with respect to how communism
actually functioned and how it could have functioned using examples
from Eastern Europe and the USSR itself during the 20th century. It
reviews both the ideology of communism and its history, as well as
the basic but difficult question of how one might decide whether an
economic system can be defined as successful or not.
How valuable to us are the activities of government? Public Goods
and Private Wants explores psychological approaches to public
economics in order to answer this question. The contributions of
economists and political scientists to the study of government
spending are discussed, and subjective measures, largely derived
from psychology, that could be used to evaluate government spending
are considered. The author then uses empirical studies to explain
how people value government goods and services, and what they
appear to want the government to do. The results have implications
for methods of valuing government services, the way people think
about government spending and political processes. This accessible
and thought-provoking volume will be of interest to academics in
the areas of economics, psychology and political science. Those
concerned with government decision making will also find it of
great value.
This book summarizes the ideas about cognitive psychology expressed
in the writings of medieval Europeans. Up until the 13th century,
Christians who wrote about cognitive psychology, foremost of whom
was St. Augustine, did so in the Neoplatonic tradition. The
translation of the works of Aristotle and some of the works of Arab
scholars into Latin during the 12th and 13th centuries brought a
high level of sophistication to the theories. The author touches
upon the works of Augustine, Averro^Des, Avicenna, Albertus Magnus,
Thomas Aquinas, William of Ockham, and others.
This book describes the psychological ideas current in medieval
Europe and their development during the period. The book aims
partly to correct misperceptions about the nature of psychology in
the Middle Ages. An important theme presented in this work is the
surprising unity and coherence of medieval psychology. Chapter 1
gives a brief historical background to the Middle Ages, and
outlines two major influences on medieval psychology: Christian
beliefs and the earlier views of classical philosophers and
physicians. Chapter 2 outlines medieval views on the nature of the
soul and spirit, particularly those views derived from Aristotle.
Chapter 3 deals with medieval theories of perception, particularly
visual perception, while chapter 4 covers cognition and memory,
particularly the medieval doctrine of the inner senses, according
to which many cognitive functions were performed in the ventricles
of the brain. Chapter 5 considers and evaluates Thomas Aquinas'
account of emotion and will. Chapters 2 through 5 consider
psychological phenomena mainly discussed by medieval scholastics;
the phenomena in chapter 6 to 9, however, were often discussed by
people with a less philosophical approach. Chapter 6 considers
medieval accounts of individual differences, in particular the
doctrine of the humors and the influence of astrology. Chapters 7
and 8 are concerned with widely different aspects of, and
approaches to, mental disorder in the Middle Ages. Chapter 9
briefly describes a few further aspects of medieval psychology, and
in the final chapter some conclusions are drawn. This book is
written for people with a general interest in medieval studies, and
will also appeal to historians of medieval psychology or medicine.
Crime fiction is a popular target for literary pastiche in France.
From the nouveau roman and the Oulipo group to the current
avant-garde, writers have seized on the genre to exploit it for
their own ends, toying with its traditional plots and characters,
and exploring its preoccupations with perception, reason and truth.
In the first full-length study of the phenomenon, Simon Kemps
investigation centres on four major writers of the twentieth
century, Alain Robbe-Grillet (b. 1922), Michel Butor (b. 1926),
Georges Perec (193682) and Jean Echenoz (b. 1947). Out of their
varied encounters with the genre, from deconstruction of the
classic detective story to homage to the roman noir, Kemp
elucidates the complex relationship between the pasticheur and his
target, which demands an entirely new assessment of pastiche as a
literary form.
Libby Saxton/Simon Kemp: Introduction--Martin Crowley: 'Que
pourraiton montrer d'autre que ce qu'on voit?': Duras and the
Photography of the Real--Nick Hanlon: Baudrillard's
Aesthetic--Patrick Sheil: Neither Here nor There: Merleau-Ponty on
Vision and Existence--Stamatina Dimakopoulou: On Seeing in
Surrealism: Max Ernst's Objects of Vision--Rakhee Balaram: Eyes
Wide Open, Eyes Wide Shut: Defining the Surrealist Eye--Hannah
Westley: Visions of the Muse in Michel Leiris's L'Age
d'Homme--Alistair Swiffen: Seeing Double/Hearing Things: In(s)anity
in the Aumonymes of Robert Desnos--Claire Boyle: Resisting the
Whole Picture: The Gaze, and Reading Autobiogrpahies by Nathalie
Sarraute and Georges Perec--Sonya Stephens: Baudelaire and Courbet:
The Art of the Unfinished--Ariane Smart: Hugo Visionnaire: Realism
and Symbolism in the Myth of Paris--Blandine Chambost: The
Mesmerizing Muse: Salome seen by Moreau and Mallarme--Jean Khalfa:
Seeing the Present--Emma Wilson: Screening Pleasure: Touch and
Vision in Contemporary Cinema (Krzysztof Kieslowski's Trois
Couleurs: Blanc)--Carol O'Sullivan: Picturing Characters: Zazies a
gogo.
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