Journal ArticlePhilosophy and Literature · April 1, 2023
This article recovers a submerged philosophical debate between Bertrand Russell’s theory of descriptions and T. S. Eliot’s “Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.” Russell’s concern with immediate experience (“acquaintance”) underscores a dilemma troubling liter ...
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Journal ArticleReview of English Studies · November 1, 2022
Poe's experimental fiction revitalizes Hume's ambivalent empiricism, the complexities of which were sometimes obscured in the philosopher's nineteenth-century American reception. Poe's 'Murders in the Rue Morgue' broaches formally the question of how one t ...
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