... writings about the limits of reason, particularly his tales of ratiocination—“The Murders in the Rue Morgue” (1841), “The Mystery of Marie Roget” (1842–43), and “The Purloined Letter” (1844). Exploring emergent sciences of chance through his polymath investigator Dupin, Poe's use of probability theory...

... revolutionary forms of social justice that insist on a truth that probability modeling cannot contain: that the future will be unimaginably different from the present, and the present, too, might yet be utterly different from the real we think we know. Nuclear waste is rarely treated in ecocriticism or risk...

... in nineteenth-century American literature and culture, focused around five canonical writers: Edgar Allen Poe, Herman Melville, Frederick Douglass, Henry David Thoreau, and Emily Dickinson. In part, Lee’s study is an intellectual history of ideas about probability and chance. He is tracing an uneven...

...- pened next, immediately on [Poe’s] arrival and for the ensuing twenty-four hours, no specific clue points the way. Yet here probability—strong probability, to be sure, amounting almost to certainty—confidently fills the gap’’ (112...

... analysis from the individual word to the sentence does in fact closely resemble the dictates of later Language poets. Yet, it also neatly maps this new millennium’s advances in neural MT, as the word becomes the word vector, and the unit of translation is not the word but the probability of a sum of word...

... that shows the intellectual agility of the work. The second sentence of Celibacies refers to the “slipperiness” of the concept of celibacy (1), and while an agile approach is probably appropriate for a slippery subject, I find myself wanting more clarity than Kahan delivers about the relationships he sees...

... that the “masses . . . probably didn’t care.” They were “simply proud” that his monument is on the Washington Mall and his memory is kept alive (136). Throughout Harris’s study of African American literature’s representations of King, there is a similar wish to preserve a monumental history of the Civil Rights...

... that room, I went straight to the Duke suite at the convention hotel and told Stanley Fish that he would have to convince me that I really wanted to waste the next five years of my life on garbage like this. Thanks to the rudeness at that meeting, my salary probably did go up another notch or two since I...

... the particularities that mattered to him with his Native relations and to secure the sort of attention and closeness that mattered to him deeply. When he wrote to Fowler, imagining her to be the more desirous party, he was probably not intentionally transferring an infelicitous set of settler norms and expectations...

... of pleasurable oddity that Flarf poetry would throw up on our screens. Reed says of his poets that “code and coding do not frighten these writers” (160), which is probably true even though pre- cious few of them are writing any code at all, and probably cannot read it. Reed’s closing chapter on the work...

... were again inextricably intertwined when the early ethnologist Henry Schoolcraft prepared a five-volume report commissioned by Congress from the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The Indian ‘‘probably broke off from one of the pri...

... reconstructed or embroidered by another Soliloquy ‘‘Lately Spoken at the African Theatre’’ 5 hand. The most probable authors behind ‘‘Soliloquy’’ at the theater are James Hewlett, principal actor of the African Theater, and William Brown, its impresario. Both are known to have composed...

..., have this luxury. We could wait for the crisis to pass—when we would presumably know the end of this story—but something would be lost. The old bravado might return. In that postpandemic time, we will probably strive to tidy the narrative, even though in doing so we risk foreclosing the possibility...

... sounded, and the deep boom of shellfire. Perhaps the correspondent scuttled with them and hit the ground again. His report will be of battle plan and tactics, of taken ground or lost terrain, of attack and counterattack. But these are some of the things he probably really saw: He might have seen...

... determinant of their value. Although law books were scarce even in the offices of established lawyers, Brown probably read Coke Littleton, Bracton, and whatever works on commercial law, property, and other topics were available...

... to Talesofthe Grotesque and Arabesque (1840), Poe probably had ‘‘Metzengerstein’’ in mind when he wrote that only one story in the collection favors that ‘‘species of pseudo-horror which we are taught to call Germanic...

... the place of angels, demons, fairies and saints, though it must be said that this last group is now making a comeback. —Margaret Atwood, “Why We Need Science Fiction” Fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science fiction...

... not surprisingly, Les Cenelles has often been excluded from major anthologies of African American literature: neither The Norton Anthology of African American Literature nor Call and Response: The Riverside Anthology of the African American Literary Tradition, probably the most well known of such anthologies...

... is the impossible made probably. Science fiction is the improbably made possible. —Rod Serling In this work I am attempting to create a new mythology for the space age. I feel that the old mythologies are definitely broken...

...’ the nation is dispersed and we are in trouble Most of the poems performed on this compilation convey Madhu- buti’s commitment to collective action. The affirmation of women’s roles as necessarily limitless in the construction of a ‘‘new nation’’ was probably progressive for 1974, but the possessive...