Literary Darwinism
Author: Joseph Carroll
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780415970143
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Evolution and Literary Theory
Author: Joseph Carroll
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 1096
ISBN-13: 9780826209795
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOver the past two decades, poststructuralism in its myriad forms has come to dominate literary criticism to the exclusion of virtually any other point of view. Few scholars have escaped the coercive authority of its programmatic radicalism. In Evolution and Literary Theory, Joseph Carroll vigorously attacks the foundational principles of poststructuralism and offers in their stead a bold new theory that situates literary criticism within the matrix of evolutionary theory.
A Companion to Literary Theory
Author: David H. Richter
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2018-02-16
Total Pages: 498
ISBN-13: 111895873X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntroduces readers to the modes of literary and cultural study of the previous half century A Companion to Literary Theory is a collection of 36 original essays, all by noted scholars in their field, designed to introduce the modes and ideas of contemporary literary and cultural theory. Arranged by topic rather than chronology, in order to highlight the relationships between earlier and most recent theoretical developments, the book groups its chapters into seven convenient sections: I. Literary Form: Narrative and Poetry; II. The Task of Reading; III. Literary Locations and Cultural Studies; IV. The Politics of Literature; V. Identities; VI. Bodies and Their Minds; and VII. Scientific Inflections. Allotting proper space to all areas of theory most relevant today, this comprehensive volume features three dozen masterfully written chapters covering such subjects as: Anglo-American New Criticism; Chicago Formalism; Russian Formalism; Derrida and Deconstruction; Empathy/Affect Studies; Foucault and Poststructuralism; Marx and Marxist Literary Theory; Postcolonial Studies; Ethnic Studies; Gender Theory; Freudian Psychoanalytic Criticism; Cognitive Literary Theory; Evolutionary Literary Theory; Cybernetics and Posthumanism; and much more. Features 36 essays by noted scholars in the field Fills a growing need for companion books that can guide readers through the thicket of ideas, systems, and terminologies Presents important contemporary literary theory while examining those of the past The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Literary Theory will be welcomed by college and university students seeking an accessible and authoritative guide to the complex and often intimidating modes of literary and cultural study of the previous half century.
The Literary Animal
Author: Jonathan Gottschall
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2005-12-26
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 0810122871
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
A Biocultural Approach to Literary Theory and Interpretation
Author: Nancy Easterlin
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2012-05-31
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 1421405040
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCombining cognitive and evolutionary research with traditional humanist methods, Nancy Easterlin demonstrates how a biocultural perspective in theory and criticism opens up new possibilities for literary interpretation. Easterlin maintains that the practice of literary interpretation is still of central intellectual and social value. Taking an open yet judicious approach, she argues, however, that literary interpretation stands to gain dramatically from a fair-minded and creative application of cognitive and evolutionary research. This work does just that, expounding a biocultural method that charts a middle course between overly reductive approaches to literature and traditionalists who see the sciences as a threat to the humanities. Easterlin develops her biocultural method by comparing it to four major subfields within literary studies: new historicism, ecocriticism, cognitive approaches, and evolutionary approaches. After a thorough review of each subfield, she reconsiders them in light of relevant research in cognitive and evolutionary psychology and provides a textual analysis of literary works from the romantic era to the present, including William Wordsworth’s “Simon Lee” and the Lucy poems, Mary Robinson’s “Old Barnard,” Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “Dejection: An Ode,” D. H. Lawrence’s The Fox, Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea, and Raymond Carver’s “I Could See the Smallest Things.” A Biocultural Approach to Literary Theory and Interpretation offers a fresh and reasoned approach to literary studies that at once preserves the central importance that interpretation plays in the humanities and embraces the exciting developments of the cognitive sciences.
Reading Human Nature
Author: Joseph Carroll
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2011-03-01
Total Pages: 371
ISBN-13: 143843524X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs the founder and leading practitioner of "literary Darwinism," Joseph Carroll remains at the forefront of a major movement in literary studies. Signaling key new developments in this approach, Reading Human Nature contains trenchant theoretical essays, innovative empirical research, sweeping surveys of intellectual history, and sophisticated interpretations of specific literary works, including The Picture of Dorian Gray, Wuthering Heights, The Mayor of Casterbridge, and Hamlet. Evolutionists in the social sciences have succeeded in delineating basic motives but have given far too little attention to the imagination. Carroll makes a compelling case that literary Darwinism is not just another "school" or movement in literary theory. It is the moving force in a fundamental paradigm change in the humanities—a revolution. Psychologists and anthropologists have provided massive evidence that human motives and emotions are rooted in human biology. Since motives and emotions enter into all the products of a human imagination, humanists now urgently need to assimilate a modern scientific understanding of "human nature." Integrating evolutionary social science with literary humanism, Carroll offers a more complete and adequate understanding of human nature.
Text in the Natural World
Author: Laurence A. Gregorio
Publisher: Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781433137716
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is an introduction to the theory and a survey of topics pertinent to the evolutionary view on literature.
Evolution, Literature, and Film
Author: Brian Boyd
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 586
ISBN-13: 0231150199
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJonathan Gottschall teaches English at Washington and Jefferson College. --Book Jacket.
Literary Structure, Evolution, and Value
Author: Jurij Striedter
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9780674536531
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA History of Literary Criticism
Author: M. A. R. Habib
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2008-04-15
Total Pages: 848
ISBN-13: 1405148845
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis comprehensive guide to the history of literary criticism from antiquity to the present day provides an authoritative overview of the major movements, figures, and texts of literary criticism, as well as surveying their cultural, historical, and philosophical contexts. Supplies the cultural, historical and philosophical background to the literary criticism of each era Enables students to see the development of literary criticism in context Organised chronologically, from classical literary criticism through to deconstruction Considers a wide range of thinkers and events from the French Revolution to Freud’s views on civilization Can be used alongside any anthology of literary criticism or as a coherent stand-alone introduction
