... Victorian statistical innovations that remain central to machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) today. Doyle’s generically split novella shows that the charismatic detective who dominates its first part is the merely partial virtuoso of a limited form. As such, A Study in Scarlet invites us...

... of these reasons I elaborate my proposal regarding mem- ory’s superabundance in contemporary culture with a reading of Richard Powers’s novel Galatea 2.2. In it narrative forms of memory confront the seemingly limitless power of artificial intelligence to sim- ulate the distinctly human: the self-conscious...

... between writing and forgetting—also leads one to question how sure these poets were of their art’s developing positions on philosophical issues like artificial intelligence. Does this poem really take Gilbert Ryle’s side over Descartes, for instance, or is it just an expression of the doubt that one well...

...: Columbia Univer- sity Press, 1994), 208. Shaviro Review 459 identities and environments, and of distributed and artificial intelligences, a new, posthuman (or at least posthumanist) sensibility is emerging. Foster reads science fiction narratives...

...: Columbia Univer- sity Press, 1994), 208. Shaviro Review 459 identities and environments, and of distributed and artificial intelligences, a new, posthuman (or at least posthumanist) sensibility is emerging. Foster reads science fiction narratives...

... 459 identities and environments, and of distributed and artificial intelligences, a new, posthuman (or at least posthumanist) sensibility is emerging. Foster reads science fiction narratives to draw a clearer picture of what this sensibil- ity might entail. What is most impressive about...

...: Columbia Univer- sity Press, 1994), 208. Shaviro Review 459 identities and environments, and of distributed and artificial intelligences, a new, posthuman (or at least posthumanist) sensibility is emerging. Foster reads science fiction narratives...

...: Columbia Univer- sity Press, 1994), 208. Shaviro Review 459 identities and environments, and of distributed and artificial intelligences, a new, posthuman (or at least posthumanist) sensibility is emerging. Foster reads science fiction narratives...

...: Columbia Univer- sity Press, 1994), 208. Shaviro Review 459 identities and environments, and of distributed and artificial intelligences, a new, posthuman (or at least posthumanist) sensibility is emerging. Foster reads science fiction narratives...

...: Columbia Univer- sity Press, 1994), 208. Shaviro Review 459 identities and environments, and of distributed and artificial intelligences, a new, posthuman (or at least posthumanist) sensibility is emerging. Foster reads science fiction narratives...

... Gardens” which questions the mode itself and “man- ages to make us think afresh about a convention in praise of naturalness which is distinguished for its fixedness, its clichit qualities, its artificiality” (p. 38). Although the pastoral is revealed as offering no working model for ordi- nary...

... to the materials of a successful art, and only with The Parliament ofFowls does Chaucer discover a fit model of intellect, of the capacity to abstract intelligibles from the spray of phenomena cast up by the imagination and retained by the memory. That model comes from the Deplanctu nuturae of Alan...

... treatment of the baroque lyric is the best we have yet seen anywhere. Ten characteristics seem to stand out in his study of it. The baroque lyricist 1) is not interested in character description, 2) takes an artificial attitude toward life, 3) isolates objects from their cosmic relationship, 4...

... and abroad, the writer’s intentions really were, and what techniques he employed and why he employed them. Such a method of approach enables us to assume a more sympa- thetic and intelligent attitude toward one whom E. I<. called “the very chefe of our late rymers,” and gives us a better...

... and postcolonial literature, African American studies, contemporary poetry, Victorian studies, and world-systems, queer, and Marxist modes of analysis. The five essays and two responses take up subjects from historical fiction to artificial intelligence, genre theory to collaborative authorship, while exploring...

... of knowl- edge, mathematical, is comprehensible to the intelligence as certainty. True method must lead the mind to this kind of knowledge, to the exclusion of opinion, conjecture, and prejudice (X, 366) .s Accepting this view, the AbbC speaks of all sciences as interconnected, “ce vaste champ...

....” In this criticism there is great praise, though perhaps unintentionally implied. And no one will take seriously Voltaire’s cynicism when he wants the Germans to have more intelligence and fewer consonants! The advantages which the German language offers to foreigners are worth noting ; e.g., its unique...

... in a post-Kierkegaard ambience. He is not particularly concerned to re-create a “historical” perspective. He offers twentieth-century insights to contemporaries. -Yet his main conclu- sions would, I think, translate easily into language intelligible to Eliza- bethans, some of them at any rate...

... methods, however, can be abused; the indirect can lead to artificiality or flatness, the direct to demonic outbursts of violence. If the latter is used in life, our modern civilization is at stake; if used in poetry, it can produce works of art which bear the stamp of immortality. Thus...

...Leon Howard By Julia Power. Lincoln, Nebraska: University Studies, Vol. XL, No. 2, 1940. Pp. vii + 225. Copyright © 1941 by Duke University Press 1941 516 Reviews a result of Miss Hughes’ careful and judicious selection and unob- trusive yet intelligently...