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A biocultural approach to literary theory and interpretation /
"Combining cognitive and evolutionary research with traditional humanist methods, Nancy Easterlin here demonstrates how a biocultural perspective in theory and criticism opens up new possibilities for literary interpretation. Easterlin maintains that the goal of literary interpretation is still...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Md. :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Literature and science?
- The emergence of "English" and the two cultures
- What is consilience?
- The "unimaginable complexity" of interpretation
- The centrality of interpretation: glimpsing knowledge
- Are art and literature adaptations?
- What is literature for?
- Aesthetics under the sign of ideology
- Narrative knowing and epistemic constraints
- Cognition, modernization, and aesthetic transformation
- Unknowing the narrative habit: Wordsworthian configurations
- Mary Robinson's Lyrical tales
- Mental maps for critical footpaths
- Constructing minds
- Constructing environment
- Constructing place
- Literary constructions of nature, place, and environment
- No place: Wide Sargasso Sea and psychic displacement
- Cognitivism in the matrix of experience
- Multiple cognitions
- From cognitive rhetoric to conceptual blending
- Cognition, consciousness, and the modern mind
- In the literary matrix: cognitive ecological process
- Vines and vipers: re-regulation in Coleridge's "Dejection"
- Shrinking the self: "I could see the smallest things"
- The emergence of Darwinian literary criticism
- Whose life history?
- Wuthering Heights and the social emotions
- Inbreeding depression and romantic incest
- Mating strategies, monogamy, and sexual equality
- Quarry or wife? The proprietary male and relational possibility in The fox.