A Theory of Literary Explication ― Specifying a Relativistic Foundation in Epistemic Probability, Cognitive Science, and Second-order Logic

Kenneth B. Newell is an alumnus of the University of Massachusetts at Lowell and received a master's degree and doctorate in English at Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania respectively. Before his retirement, he coordinated the Humanistic Studies Program at Christopher Newport University and taught English there as well as at several other universities-Drexel, Kansas, California at Los Angeles, Virginia Commonwealth, California State at Bakersfield, and Southern California. He is the author of Structure in Four Novels by H. G. Wells, Pattern Poetry: A Historical Critique from the Alexandrian Greeks to Dylan Thomas, Conrad's Destructive Element: The Metaphysical World-View Unifying Lord Jim, New Conservative Explications: Reasoning with Some Classic English Poems, and scholarly articles mainly on early Modern British fiction.