This book analyzes recent physics plays, arguing that their enaction of concepts from the sciences they discuss alters the nature of the decisions made by the characters, changing the ethical judgements that might be cast on them.

This book argues that poetry is compatible with systematic knowledge including science, and indeed inherent in it; The book also discusses some of the obstacles to a `poetry of knowledge', including scientific objectivism, the Kantian tradition in philosophy, and the separation of the `two cultures' in our academic and intellectual institutions.

This book investigates how popular American literature and film transformed the poisonous woman from a misogynist figure used to exclude women and minorities from political power into a feminist hero used to justify the expansion of their public roles.

This open access book presents five different approaches to reading breath in literature, in response to texts from a range of historical, geographical and cultural environments.