20th Century Literature

Focusing on James's last three completed novels - The Ambassadors, The Wings of the Dove, and The Golden Bowl - Maya Higashi Wakana shows how a microsociological approach to James's novels radically revises the widespread tradition of putting James's characters into historical and cultural contexts...

Introducing the philosphical basics of computer science and the contributions that philosophy and computer science can make to each other, this text investigates what makes computer science an empirical science and offers philosophical issues associated with artificial intelligence practices...

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This study examines the performed poetry of Charlotte Mew, Anna Wickham, Edith Sitwell, Stevie Smith, Liz Lochhead, and Jackie Kay as an alternative radical tradition of British poetry, developed to convey women's experience. Through a historical treatment in which the poets are discussed in pairs, ..

Responding to the astonishing success of J. K. Rowling and other contemporary authors, the editors of this timely volume take up the challenge of assessing the complex interplay of forces that have generated, and sometimes sustained, the popularity of children's books. Ranging from eighteenth-centur..

Responding to the astonishing success of J. K. Rowling and other contemporary authors, the editors of this timely volume take up the challenge of assessing the complex interplay of forces that have generated, and sometimes sustained, the popularity of children's books. Ranging from eighteenth-centur..

Responding to the astonishing success of J. K. Rowling and other contemporary authors, the editors of this timely volume take up the challenge of assessing the complex interplay of forces that have generated, and sometimes sustained, the popularity of children's books. Ranging from eighteenth-centur..

Analyzing literary texts, plays, films and photographs within a transatlantic framework, this volume explores the inseparable and mutually influential relationship between different forms of national identity in Great Britain and the United States and the construction of masculinity in each country...

Analyzing literary texts, plays, films and photographs within a transatlantic framework, this volume explores the inseparable and mutually influential relationship between different forms of national identity in Great Britain and the United States and the construction of masculinity in each country...

This book illuminates the nature of contemporary pragmatism against the background of Rescher’s work, resulting in a stronger grasp of the prospects and promises of this philosophical movement.  The essays in this volume, written by established and up-and-coming scholars of pragmatism, touch on them..

This book explores the mutual intellectual influences, convergences, and differences between three groundbreaking philosophical traditions: analytic philosophy, phenomenology, and pragmatism...

Since the publication of their first co-authored article in 2005, Scott F. Aikin and Robert B. Talisse have argued for a distinctive, yet controversial, version of pragmatism. This book sets out for the first time a cohesive, unified, and integrated statement on Aikin and Talisse’s distinctive stran..