Literary Darwinism
Author: Joseph Carroll
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780415970143
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Literary Darwinism
Author: Joseph Carroll
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780415970136
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Literary Darwinism , Carroll presents a comprehensive survey of this new movement with a collection of his most important previously published work, along with three new essays. The essays and reviews give commentary on all the major contributors to the field, situate the field as a whole in relation to historical trends and contemporary schools, provide Darwinist readings of major literary texts such as Pride and Prejudice and Tess of the d'Urbervilles , and analyze literary Darwinism in relation to the affiliated fields of evolutionary metaphysics, cognitive rhetoric, and ecocriticism. Collecting the essays in a single volume will provide a central point of reference for scholars interested in consulting what the "foremost practicioner" ( New York Times ) of Darwinian literary criticism has to say about his field.
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.
Darwinism as Religion
Author: Michael Ruse
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 0190241020
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'Darwinism as Religion' argues that the theory of evolution given by Charles Darwin in the 19th-century has always functioned as much as a secular form of religion as anything purely scientific. Through the words of novelists and poets, Michael Ruse argues that Darwin took us from the secure world of Christian faith into a darker, less friendly world of chance and lack of meaning.
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.
Virginia Woolf and the Power of Story
Author: Linda Nicole Blair
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2017-03-05
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 1476627215
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom novels to films, our everyday lives are filled with stories that comfort and connect us and enable new ways of thinking. One of the most innovative writers in modern history, Virginia Woolf, changed the landscape of fiction and challenged our notions of what it means to be human. Her novels invite readers to envision a world in which stories have the power to effect positive change. This book explores the phenomenon of Story as practiced by Woolf, interpreting her work in the context of literary Darwinism--a critical approach focusing on patterns of innate human behavior.
America's Darwin
Author: Tina Gianquitto
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 408
ISBN-13: 0820346756
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn engaging collection of interdisciplinary essays on the distinctive qualities of America's textual engagement with Darwinian evolutionary theory, especially in regard to On the Origin of Species, which highlights the influence of prevalent cultural anxieties on interpretation.
Darwin and the Novelists
Author: George Levine
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 0226475743
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Victorian novel clearly joins with science in the pervasive secularizing of nature and society and in the exploration of the consequences of secularization that characterized mid-Victorian England. p. viii.
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.
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.
