@book {1670,
	title = {The literary animal : evolution and the nature of narrative},
	year = {2005},
	note = {<p>edited by Jonathan Gottschall and David Sloan Wilson ; forewords by E. O. Wilson and Frederick Crewsill. ; 24 cmIncludes bibliographical references (p. 265-300)</p>
},
	pages = {xxvi, 304 p},
	publisher = {Northwestern University Press},
	organization = {Northwestern University Press},
	address = {Evanston, Ill},
	abstract = {<p>In recent years, articles in major periodicals from the New York Times Magazine to the Times Literary Supplement have heralded the arrival of a new school of literary studies that promises-or threatens-to profoundly shift the current paradigm. This revolutionary approach, known as Darwinian literary studies, is based on a few simple premises: evolution has produced a universal landscape of the human mind that can be scientifically mapped; these universal tendencies are reflected in the composition, reception, and interpretation of literary works; and an understanding of the evolutionary foundations of human behavior, psychology, and culture will enable literary scholars to gain powerful new perspectives on the elements, form, and nature of storytelling.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. The volume brings together scholars from the forefront of the new field of evolutionary literary analysis-both literary analysts who have made evolution their explanatory framework and evolutionist scientists who have taken a serious interest in literature-to show how the human propensity for literature and art can be properly framed as a true evolutionary problem. Their work is an important step toward the long-prophesied synthesis of the humanities and what Steven Pinker calls "the new sciences of human nature."Foreword from the scientific side / E.O. Wilson -- Foreword from the literary side / Frederick Crews -- Introduction : Literature -- a last frontier in human evolutionary studies / Jonathan Gotttschall and David Sloan Wilson -- Part I. Evolution and literary theory -- Literature, science, and human nature / Ian McEwan -- Evolutionary social constructivism / David Sloan Wilson -- From Lacan to Darwin / Dylan Evans -- What happens in Hamlet? Exploring the psychological foundations of drama / Daniel Nettle -- Human nature and literary meaning : a theoretical model illustrated with a critique of Pride and prejudice / Joseph Carroll -- The problem of romantic love : Shakespeare and evolutionary psychology / Marcus Nordlund -- Male bonding in the epics and romances / Robin Fox -- Part II. The evolutionary riddle of art -- Evolutionary theories of art / Brian Boyd -- Reverse-engineering narrative : evidence of special design / Michelle Scalise Sugiyama -- Part III. Darwinian theory and scientific methods -- Quantitative literary study : a modest manifesto and testing the hypotheses of feminist fairy tale studies / Jonathan Gottschall -- Proper hero dads and dark hero cads : alternate mating strategies exemplified in British romantic literature / Daniel J. Kruger, Maryanne Fisher, Ian Jobling -- Crossing the abyss : erotica and the intersection of evolutionary psychology and literary studies / Catherine Salmon -- Afterword / Denis Dutton</p>
},
	keywords = {Evolution (Biology) in literature, Human beings in literature, Literature and science, Narration (Rhetoric)},
	isbn = {0810122863 (cloth : alk.},
	author = {Gottschall, Jonathan and Wilson, David Sloan}
}
