Tag: Jane Austen

• Positional pricing, positional leverage

  To understand positional leverage, we first need a theory of public belief. My contention is that—to give a “just so” story from our evolutionary history—humans have traditionally lived in relatively small communities, where individual opinion held some sway in group decision-making, if only by exerting tacit pressure on a chieftain or council of elders. (We…

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  August 4, 2021

  Essays

  art criticism, belief, Camille Paglia, Game B, Jane Austen, metacriticism, music criticism, Pierre Bourdieu, strategic interaction

• Metric Prose in Austen’s Emma

  Rhetorician Fred Scott divides writing into what he dubs the “motative” and “nutative” styles. Nutative writing, as its name implies, has a rhythm which nods; it was, contemporaneous with Austen, synonymous with verse and poetry. Motative writing, meanwhile, moves: Scott describes it as having the rhythm of the tides, moving shore-ward with each successive rising…

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  October 11, 2016

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  Emma, Functional Sentence Persepective, Jane Austen, litcrit, literature, meter, motative, nutative, prose, verse