The modern novel, so the story goes, thinks poorly of mere description – what Virginia Woolf called "that ugly, that clumsy, that incongruous tool". As a result, critics have largely neglected description as a feature of novelistic innovation during...

Is the point of philosophy to transmit beliefs about the world, or can it sometimes have higher ambitions? In this bold study, Karen Zumhagen-Yekple makes a critical contribution to the "resolute" program of Wittgenstein scholarship, revealing his "T...

The triumph of avant-gardes in the 1920s tends to dominate our discussions of the music, art, and literature of the period. But the broader current of modernism encompassed many movements, and one of the most distinct – and influential – was a turn t...