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| June 22, 2008 | Crews, Frederick | COPYRIGHT 2008 Northern Illinois University. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

When Joseph Carroll's Evolution and Literary Theory appeared in 1995, I read the first hundred pages or so with great interest and took comfort from its critique of the then poststructuralist-dominated literary academy. Carroll's presentation stood out for its comprehensiveness and its uncompromising embrace of empirical values--the same values to which, since 1980, I myself had been appealing against applied deconstruction and its ideologized progeny. (62) In addition, I found that Carroll and I shared an intellectual hero, Charles Darwin, who, for both of us, epitomized a determination to explain observed effects only by reference to commonly ascertainable, temporally ...

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