Telling stories : literature and evolution = Geschichten erzählen : literatur und evolution /

The essays collected in this volume highlight the narrative as a phenomenon inherent in human nature. They examine the likely purpose of artistic and literary expression and its contribution to survival in an early human environment. They also consider the developing interest in shaping experience t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Gansel, Carsten, Vanderbeke, Dirk, 1958-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Alemán
Publicado: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, 2012.
Colección:Spectrum Literaturwissenschaft ; 26.
Temas:
Storytelling.
Literature and science.
Human evolution in literature.
Art de conter.
Littérature et sciences.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Composition & Creative Writing.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Rhetoric.
REFERENCE > Writing Skills.
Human evolution in literature
Literature and science
Storytelling
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Evolution and Literature. Preface; Evolution und Literatur. Vorbemerkungen; I. Theoretical Approaches / Theoretische Ansätze; How Can Evolutionary Biology Enrich the Study of Literature?; Is Storytelling a Biological Adaptation? Preliminary Thoughts on How to Pose that Question; The Adaptive Function of the Arts. Alternative Evolutionary Hypotheses; Evolution and Literary Response; Storytelling from the Perspective of Evolutionary Theory; The Unlovely Little Sister. Storytelling as an Exaptive Phenomenon; Evolution des Kognitiven. Nervenzellen, Sprache und kulturelle Adaptationen

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