...Dianne Mitchell Genre, Vol. 53, No. 3 December 2020 DOI 10.1215/00166928-8847214 © 2020 by University of Oklahoma Reviews Cluster: Poetics dianne mitchell Rachel Eisendrath, Poetry in a World of Things: Aesthetics and Empiricism in Renaissance Ekphrasis, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2018...

...Rebecca Tierney-Hynes This essay argues that William Congreve’s comedy, influenced by Lockean empiricism, intervenes influentially in the development of eighteenth-century models of selfhood. Congreve takes John Locke’s mimetic model of the mind, in which we copy and contain the afterimages...

... Baker is associate professor of humanities (literature) at Yale-NUS College in Singapore. He is the author of Realism's Empire: Empiricism and Enchantment in the Nineteenth-Century Novel (2009); The Aesthetics of Clarity and Confusion: Literature and Engagement since Nietzsche and the Naturalists...

... that appear across the book's five chapters. The argument of each chapter is equally clear and intricate, and for this reader, productive of pleasures akin to those of visual intricacy as described by Hogarth. Zitin's first chapter offers British Enlightenment empiricism and its skeptical focus...

... GENRE theless goes on to privilege hermeneutic practice, a means of knowing that opposes the empiricism purported to dominate the sciences. Lyon does, however, acknowledge interdisciplinarity's limits in the disci- pline of English, and she does not appear to valorize unconditionally...

..., this interpretation of the aporias of private language in Wittgenstein and their "skeptical" solution is opposed to any reduction of the "mental state," whether this is done within a "factualist" conception (typical of empiricism and positivism) or a "behaviorist" one (typical of utilitarianism...

... and US contexts, which brought literary techniques to bear on journalistic conventions of empiricism and objectivity, and the European report- 410 GENRE age movements of Factography and New Objectivity, whose formations were fundamentally linked to the political commitment to communism...

... of empiricism in early seventeenth- century England. Bacon's optimism about the explosion of technology and intellectual daring was not universally shared, however. The socio-political implications of his thought were a flash-point, for instance, among the curious "virtuosi" and the tradesmen...

... Cited Anderson Amanda . 2007 . “Trollope's Modernity.” ELH 74 , no. 3 : 509 – 34 . Baker Geoffrey . 2009 . Realism's Empire: Empiricism and Enchantment in the Nineteenth-Century Novel . Columbus : Ohio State University Press . Bakhtin Mikhail M. 1986...

... and entertainment: not knowing how the trick gets pulled off actually increases the audience’s enjoyment of the trick. But there exists a crucial assumption that the magician (or chemist) knows how the trick works such that no real miracle has occurred, and that empiricism maintains its dominance...

...- 5"Wild singularity" refers to the problem of irreducible epistemological alterity, the unmaster- able condition in which both empiricism and phenomenology discover "always more or always less," (Derrida 151, n.184); Foucault defines the "historical a priori" as the condition of reality...

... empiricism asserts knowledge as power over a material uni- verse, combining Enlightenment skepticism with Satanic defiance. These skepti- cal statements from the mouths of Southey's exotic sorcerers place rationalist 22 GENRE radicalism in a provocatively demonic light, quite realistically at war...

... our post-modern challenge to the cozy empiricism of the Enlightenment. This return is forced upon us by the whole-hearted fantasy of the torah, which, as attested by Midrash, trusts fully in the cornucopian text, reasoning not the need for refer- ence. And yet the Deuteronomist cannot quite...

... and the absence of deviation. (253) In his analysis, mean designates a commonsensical feature of well-balanced empiricism: “resisters exceed the mark of the golden mean,” he notes, “while the restrictors miss the mark, both violating the mean” (253). Thus, in the three...

... of chaotic basis composed of an infinite number of inferences and analogies of every description, and these moreover distorted by our state of feeling at the time” (126 – 27). Venn highlights the subjective complexity of empiricism, of how evidence filters through differ- ent channels. The “several...

... the analysis of blocks or chunks and the larger narrative flows into which these artificially bracketed units are synthesized. The Mill on the Floss lays bare the poverty of this computational empiricism, since it shows how any number of seeming data points might be zeros at one moment, ones in another...

... . . . and the empiricism consequent to a materialist view are at odds with compromised eyesight and deconstructed language. It is significant, then, that in the same paragraph where Stephen begins his musings on vision, his mind turns to definitions and distinctions if you can put your five fingers through...

... construed as a conflict of possible worlds—specifically the seventeenth centu- ry's knowledge and obligation worlds, that rubbed nascent empiricism against Puritanism in its own time. The possible worlds of the Bunyan section may shed light on Stephen Dedalus's vulnerability, his intellectual struggle...

... position on a realistic and rationalistic empiricism and denied the supersensible and supernatural (Mittal 1971, 46). One aspect of their mode of reasoning was to challenge all claims to knowledge except those based on sense perception and verifiable by it. Though they were sometimes accused...

... histories and bundled times seems beyond his aim. Kracauer is inevitably thrown back on a critically self-conscious empiricism, albeit one guided by some good rules of thumb and skeptical optimism. Benjamin, by contrast, steeped in traditions of German mys- ticism from his earliest school days...