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4: Collision EffectThe game is about power, the prize is the world....

This volume brings together specially written essays by leading researchers on the propositional imagination. This is the mental capacity we exploit when we imagine that Holmes has a bad habit or that there are zombies. It plays an essential role in philosophical theorizing, engaging with fiction, and indeed in everyday life. The    Architecture of...

The four tales in this volume share autobiographical origins in Conrad's experience at sea and his exile from Poland. They vividly present Conrad's preoccupation with the theme of solidarity, challenged from without by the elements and from within by human doubts and fears. This revised edition uses the English first edition texts and has a new...

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In the 17th and 18th centuries, thousands of ordinary people experienced evangelical conversion and wrote forms of spiritual autobiography to make sense of their lives. This book traces the rise and progress of 'conversion narrative' in England and establishes some of the cultural conditions that allowed the genre to proliferate....

A spirited and lively introduction to American literature, this book acquaints readers with the key authors, works, and events in the nation's rich and ecclectic literary tradition....