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The Evolution of Literature. : Legacies of Darwin in European Cultures.
Daniel Dennett famously claimed for Darwinian theory the status of universal solvent: the totalising theory of theories, even of theories of literature. Yet only a few writers and critics have followed his view. This volume asks why. It examines both evolution in literature, and the evolution of lit...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Editions Rodopi
2011.
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| Colección: | Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preliminary Material
- Acknowledgements / Nicholas Saul and Simon J. James
- The Evolution of Literature / Nicholas Saul and Simon J. James
- The Law of Higgledy-pigglety: Charles Darwin's Inheritance, his Legacy and the Moral Order of Nature / David Knight
- 'Our Racial Friends': Disease, Poverty and Social Darwinism, 1860-1940 / Paul Weindling
- From Primate to Human in Two Easy Steps / Joseph Emonds
- Charles Darwin's Centenary and the Politics and Poetics of Parenting: Inheritance, Variation, and the Aesthetic Legacy of Samuel Butler / David Amigoni
- By An Evolutionist: Poetic Language in Chambers and Tennyson / Anna Barton
- Victorian Evolutionary Criticism and the Pitfalls of Consilience / John Holmes
- H.G. Wells's The Time Machine and the End of Literature / Simon J. James
- Mind in Modern Fiction: Literary and Philosophical Perspectives after Darwin / Patricia Waugh
- E-Volutionary Fictions: The Darwinian Algorithm in Literature and Computer Games / Alistair Brown
- Value Judgements and Functional Roles: Carroll's Quarrel With Pinker / Jon Adams
- The Book of Nature: Biosemiotics and the Evolution of Literature / Wendy Wheeler
- Men, Monkeys, Monsters and Evolution in Fiction from the Fin-de-siècle to the Present / Christopher Lloyd
- Zola and Darwin: A Reassessment / David Baguley
- On the Evolution of Humanity and the Oppressions of Darwinism in French Postwar Fiction / Louise Lyle
- Houellebecq, Genetics and Evolutionary Psychology / Douglas Morrey
- 'Once in Human Nature, a Thing Cannot be Driven Out': Evolutionary Aesthetics in Wilhelm Jensen's The Legacy of Blood (1869). An Early Response to Darwin / Nicholas Saul
- 'Live like a Man and not like a Monkey': Nietzsche's Philosophic Vitalism and Darwin's Theory of Evolution / John A. McCarthy
- 'Creative Evolution:' Bergson's Critique of Science and its Reception in the German-Speaking World / David Midgley
- Evolutionary Psychology as a Heuristic in Literary Studies / Katja Mellmann
- Contributors
- Index.