Evolution and Literary Theory
Title | Evolution and Literary Theory PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph Carroll |
Publisher | University of Missouri Press |
Pages | 1096 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780826209795 |
Over 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.
Literary Darwinism
Title | Literary Darwinism PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph Carroll |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Pages | 308 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780415970143 |
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
A Companion to Literary Theory
Title | A Companion to Literary Theory PDF eBook |
Author | David H. Richter |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Pages | 498 |
Release | 2018-02-16 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 111895873X |
Introduces 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
Title | The Literary Animal PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Gottschall |
Publisher | Northwestern University Press |
Pages | 332 |
Release | 2005-12-26 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0810122871 |
The 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.
Reading Human Nature
Title | Reading Human Nature PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph Carroll |
Publisher | State University of New York Press |
Pages | 371 |
Release | 2011-03-01 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 143843524X |
As 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.
Evolution, Literature, and Film
Title | Evolution, Literature, and Film PDF eBook |
Author | Brian Boyd |
Publisher | Columbia University Press |
Pages | 586 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0231150199 |
Jonathan Gottschall teaches English at Washington and Jefferson College. --Book Jacket.
Text in the Natural World
Title | Text in the Natural World PDF eBook |
Author | Laurence A. Gregorio |
Publisher | Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Literature |
ISBN | 9781433137716 |
This book is an introduction to the theory and a survey of topics pertinent to the evolutionary view on literature.