This chapter examines John Lockman's translation of the first ten volumes of the Lettres
édifiantes et curieuses, a famous collection of Jesuit letters and treatises from all four …

What does one expect from a title like'Reading Locke and Newton as Literature'? Maybe
some account of their prose style, or, more broadly, of their rhetoric, as it contributes to the …

I propose a reading of Iris Murdoch's A Word Child and show how her novel resonates with
important themes in Ludwig Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations, as read by Stanley …

In a few weeks, all going well, I will get to see my Polish file. Any foreign journalist who
visited Poland regularly in the Communist period must assume that the old Security Service …

Initial book reviews of Michael Ondaatje's novel Anil's Ghost (2000) were not altogether
favorable. Some critics, like Tom LeClair of The Nation, were especially scathing on the …

Why do we fail to trust some narrators, and why do the tales other narrators tell strike us as
incomplete? How do the phenomena of untrustworthy and fallible narra tion function within …

John Williams' Stoner and Eva Hoffman's Lost in Translation: Life in a New Language are
discrete texts, but both are accounts of literary lives. These are lives that have been moulded …

This article identifies a troubling trend in David Foster Wallace studies. Many critics and
scholars begin their analyses of Wallace's fiction in the personal interviews and essays that …

David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest raised expectations of what a novel might do. As he
understood fiction to aim at what it means to be human, so he hoped his work might relieve …

This 2003 study sheds light on the way in which the English Romantics dealt with the basic
problems of knowledge, particularly as they inherited them from the philosopher David …