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Title The literary animal : evolution and the nature of narrative / edited by Jonathan Gottschall and David Sloan Wilson ; forewords by E.O. Wilson and Frederick Crews
Published Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, ©2005

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Description 1 online resource (xxvi, 304 pages)
Series Rethinking Theory
Rethinking theory.
Contents Foreword from the scientific side / E.O. Wilson -- Foreword from the literary side / Frederick Crews -- Introduction : Literature -- a last frontier in human evolutionary studies / Jonathan Gotttschall and David Sloan Wilson -- Part I. Evolution and literary theory -- Literature, science, and human nature / Ian McEwan -- Evolutionary social constructivism / David Sloan Wilson -- From Lacan to Darwin / Dylan Evans -- What happens in Hamlet? Exploring the psychological foundations of drama / Daniel Nettle -- Human nature and literary meaning : a theoretical model illustrated with a critique of Pride and prejudice / Joseph Carroll -- The problem of romantic love : Shakespeare and evolutionary psychology / Marcus Nordlund -- Male bonding in the epics and romances / Robin Fox -- Part II. The evolutionary riddle of art -- Evolutionary theories of art / Brian Boyd -- Reverse-engineering narrative : evidence of special design / Michelle Scalise Sugiyama -- Part III. Darwinian theory and scientific methods -- Quantitative literary study : a modest manifesto and testing the hypotheses of feminist fairy tale studies / Jonathan Gottschall -- Proper hero dads and dark hero cads : alternate mating strategies exemplified in British romantic literature / Daniel J. Kruger, Maryanne Fisher, Ian Jobling -- Crossing the abyss : erotica and the intersection of evolutionary psychology and literary studies / Catherine Salmon -- Afterword / Denis Dutton
Summary The goal of this book is to overcome some of the widespread misunderstandings about the meaning of a Darwinian approach to the human mind generally, and literature specifically
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Literature and science.
Evolution (Biology) in literature.
Human beings in literature.
Narration (Rhetoric)
TRAVEL -- Special Interest -- Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
Evolution (Biology) in literature
Human beings in literature
Literature and science
Narration (Rhetoric)
17.90 literature in relation with other areas of science and culture.
20.10 art and society: general.
Evolutionstheorie
Literaturtheorie
Literature.
Arts.
Evolution.
Human nature.
Evolution theory.
Sciences.
Genre/Form Aufsatzsammlung.
Form Electronic book
Author Gottschall, Jonathan.
Wilson, David Sloan.
ISBN 9780810161832
0810161834