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Maya Kronfeld

Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Literature
Literature

Selected Publications


Spontaneity

Journal Article Political Concepts: A Lexicon · July 2025 Link to item Cite

" 'The Shapes My Brain Holds': Kantian Spontaneity and Virginia Woolf's The Waves"

Chapter · May 2025 This chapter suggests a blueprint for reading literature and philosophy together, through a Kantian notion of spontaneous cognitive form that is flexible and linked with the underpinnings of objective knowledge. While “stream-of-consciousness” fiction is o ... Link to item Cite

"Prufrock" between Acquaintance and Description: Bertrand Russell and T. S. Eliot

Journal Article Philosophy 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 ... Full text Cite

What Is Holding Us Together? David Hume, Edgar Allan Poe and the Problem of Association

Journal Article Review 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 ... Full text Cite

Structure in the Moment: Rhythm Section Responsivity

Journal Article Jazz and Culture · October 1, 2021 Full text Cite