The evolution of literature : legacies of Darwin in European cultures
著者
書誌事項
The evolution of literature : legacies of Darwin in European cultures
(Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, 152)
Rodopi, 2011
大学図書館所蔵 全4件
  青森
  岩手
  宮城
  秋田
  山形
  福島
  茨城
  栃木
  群馬
  埼玉
  千葉
  東京
  神奈川
  新潟
  富山
  石川
  福井
  山梨
  長野
  岐阜
  静岡
  愛知
  三重
  滋賀
  京都
  大阪
  兵庫
  奈良
  和歌山
  鳥取
  島根
  岡山
  広島
  山口
  徳島
  香川
  愛媛
  高知
  福岡
  佐賀
  長崎
  熊本
  大分
  宮崎
  鹿児島
  沖縄
  韓国
  中国
  タイ
  イギリス
  ドイツ
  スイス
  フランス
  ベルギー
  オランダ
  スウェーデン
  ノルウェー
  アメリカ
注記
"This book emerges from an interdisciplinary comparative literature conference 'The Evolution of Literature: Legacies of Darwin in European Cultures', which was held at St. Mary's College, Durham University, from 4-6 April 2008"--P. [7]
Includes bibliographical references and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
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 literature. It looks at literary representations of Darwinism both historically and synchronically, at how a theory of literature might be derived from evolutionary theory, and indeed how evolution as a process might be regarded as itself aesthetic. It complements these theoretical and historical dimensions of enquiry with the comparative dimension. It asks in short: What have been the representations of Darwinian evolutionary theory in literature since the late nineteenth century? What are the leading paradigms in theory and in literature for renovating the evolutionary model? What were, and are, the differences in British, French, German paradigms of literary Darwinian reception? How, if at all, did Darwinian modes of thought hybridise across national borders? Last, but not least: What is the future of the Darwinian mode?
目次
Acknowledgements
Nicholas Saul and Simon J. James: Introduction: The Evolution of Literature
David Knight: The Law of Higgledy-pigglety: Charles Darwin's Inheritance, his Legacy and the Moral Order of Nature
Paul Weindling: 'Our Racial Friends': Disease, Poverty and Social Darwinism, 1860-1940
Joseph Emonds: From Primate to Human in Two Easy Steps
David Amigoni: Charles Darwin's Centenary and the Politics and Poetics of Parenting: Inheritance, Variation, and the Aesthetic Legacy of Samuel Butler
Anna Barton: By An Evolutionist: Poetic Language in Chambers and Tennyson
John Holmes: Victorian Evolutionary Criticism and the Pitfalls of Consilience
Simon J. James: H.G. Wells's The Time Machine and the End of Literature
Patricia Waugh: Mind in Modern Fiction: Literary and Philosophical Perspectives after Darwin
Alistair Brown: E-Volutionary Fictions: The Darwinian Algorithm in Literature and Computer Games
Jon Adams: Value Judgements and Functional Roles: Carroll's Quarrel With Pinker
Wendy Wheeler: The Book of Nature: Biosemiotics and the Evolution of Literature
Christopher Lloyd: Men, Monkeys, Monsters and Evolution in Fiction from the Fin-de-siecle to the Present
David Baguley: Zola and Darwin: A Reassessment
Louise Lyle: On the Evolution of Humanity and the Oppressions of Darwinism in French Postwar Fiction
Douglas Morrey: Houellebecq, Genetics and Evolutionary Psychology
Nicholas Saul: '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
John A. McCarthy: 'Live like a Man and not like a Monkey': Nietzsche's Philosophic Vitalism and Darwin's Theory of Evolution
David Midgley: 'Creative Evolution': Bergson's Critique of Science and its Reception in the German-Speaking World
Katja Mellmann: Evolutionary Psychology as a Heuristic in Literary Studies
Contributors
Index
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