Veronica Forrest-Thomson: Poetic Artifice: A Theory of Twentieth-Century Poetry, second edition

1993 Twentieth-Century Poetry: From Text to Context (London: Routledge).

This collection of essays contributes to the field of hypertext and cyber-culture studies, which has developed in parallel with the Internet and the World Wide Web over the past ten years. Its main purpose is to elaborate and apply to the field a new rhetoric that would be suitable and original. Or, as Espen Aarseth puts it in the introduction to ''Aporia and Epiphany in Doom and the Speaking C...

Cook's Theory and the Twentieth Century Mathematics

Today, many top mathematicians know about or even study computational complexity. As a result, mathematicians now pay more attention and respect to the foundation of computer science and mathematics. The foundation of mathematics, which is highly related to logic and philosophy, was for a longest time ignored by a considerable number of mathematicians. Steve Smale may have been the first pure m...

A Theory of Genre Formation in the Twentieth Century

In his article "A Theory of Genre Formation in the Twentieth Century" Michael Rodgers explores the relationship between Vladimir Nabokov's Invitation to a Beheading and magical realism in order to theorize about genre formation in the twentieth century. Rodgers argues not only that specific twentieth-century narrative forms are bound intrinsically with literary realism and socio-political condi...

Harmonic Function Theory Second Edition

The Body Move: Revising Portuguese Female Poetry of the First Quarter of the Twentieth Century

The first quarter of the twentieth century in Portugal was characterised by a series of important historical and political events: the Regicide (1 February 1908), the fall of the Monarchy and establishment of the Republic (5 October 1910), and the First World War (1914-1918). By this time, women could not yet vote and they were systematically ignored in the debate of crucial social issues. Ther...