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Beyond words: can literary Darwinism address the unsaid and inexpressible in literary creation and response?(Responses)
Joseph Carroll is essentially the founder and the preeminent theorist of Darwinian adaptationist literary study, with an enviable mastery of the subjects relevant to his interests: evolutionary theory (he has written a splendid monograph-length introduction to his own edition of Darwin's The Origin of Species) and evolutionary psychology as well as an enormous amount of Western literature. In addition, he understands statistics and can apply it in his own work; he is also highly conversant with recent advances in cognitive science and neuroscience. He is the obvious first choice to write a target article about the emerging field that is called Literary Darwinism or ...
- The bottlenecks of literary Darwinism.(Responses)
- Magazine article from: Style Mallory-Kani, Amy Womack, Kenneth June 22, 2008 700+ words
...doing the same with literary Darwinism appears to be undesirable...that "evolutionary literary study[...] is one...ambitious adherents" to literary Darwinism aim at "fundamentally...paradigm within which literary study is now conducted...
- Do we need literary Darwinism?(Responses)
- Magazine article from: Style Goodheart, Eugene June 22, 2008 700+ words
...biology. The ultimate ambition of literary Darwinism, as Joseph Carroll makes clear...the paradigm within which literary study is now conducted" and "to...theoretical approaches other than literary Darwinism have provided insights into...
- Literary Darwinism as science and myth.
- Magazine article from: Style Seamon, Roger June 22, 2008 700+ words
The program of Darwinian literary study (DLS) that Joseph Carroll advances...An Evolutionary Paradigm for Literary Study" encompasses a number of projects...misunderstanding the nature of literary study. Literary study is not now...
- Reflections on literary Darwinism.(Responses)
- Magazine article from: Style Salmon, Catherine June 22, 2008 700+ words
...psychology and anthropology. In "An Evolutionary Paradigm for Literary Study," Carroll raises the issue of whether the arts are an...qualitatively unique. Despite such claims, "Trying to isolate literary study from psychological and historical generalizations is a sophistical...
- An evolutionary paradigm for literary study.
- Magazine article from: Style Carroll, Joseph June 22, 2008 700+ words
...Institutional Position of Literary Darwinism Over the past thirteen...so, evolutionary literary study has emerged as a...and evolutionary literary study is "human nature...particularly concerns for literary study: the challenge...
- Brief introduction to Joseph Carroll and the special issue of Style: an...
- Magazine article from: Style Knapp, John V. June 22, 2008 700+ words
...known books, Evolution and Literary Theory (1995); an Edition of Darwin's Origin of Species (2003); in Literary Darwinism: Evolution, Human Nature, and Literature (2004), and in his many articles and reviews as well as in the...
- "No ideas but in things": fiction, criticism, and the new Darwinism.(Critical...
- Magazine article from: Style Mellard, James M. March 22, 2007 700+ words
...of literary scholars, theorists, and critics has been working to integrate literary study with Darwinian social science. --Joseph Carroll, Literary Darwinism Ian McEwan is among the most honored of today's novelists. Three of his novels...
- Literary Study and the Social Order.
- Magazine article from: Humanitas Tanner, Stephen L. September 22, 1999 700+ words
Determining how literary study relates to the social order has...the moral and social effects of literary study is so knotty that even people...in the edifying consequences of literary study. "For years," he says...
