Contents -- Preface -- Part One Two Natural Kinds -- 1. Approaching the Literary -- 2. Two Modes of Thought -- 3. Possible Castles -- Part Two Language and Reality -- 4. The Transactional Self -- 5. The Inspiration of Vygotsky -- 6. Psychological Reality -- 7. Nelson Goodman's Worlds -- 8. Thought and Emotion -- Part Three Acting in Constructed Worlds -- 9. The Language of Education -- 10. Developmental Theory as Culture -- Afterword -- Appendix: A Reader's Retelling of "Clay" -- Notes -- Credits -- Index.