EDMOND WRIGHT holds degrees in both English and Philosophy. His doctoral thesis was on metaphor. He has edited The Case for Qualia (MIT Press, forthcoming), The Ironic Discourse (Poetics Today, 1983), New Representationalisms: Essays in the Philosophy of Perception (Avebury, 1993), and has co-edited with his wife Elizabeth Wright The Zizek Reader (Blackwell, 1999). He has published over sixty articles on language, perception, epistemology and narrative, as well as two books of poetry