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The Rape of Troy: Evolution, Violence, and the World of Homer.(The Achaians Spread their Seed)
The Rape of Troy: Evolution, Violence, and the World of Homer. By Jonathan Gottschall. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge UP, 2008. xii, and 223 pp. $34.99 paper.
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This double issue of Style seems an especially appropriate place to review Jonathan Gottschall's new book. Almost as a retort to some of the respondents in this issue who demand what could be called a variation of "show me the money," Gottschall employs adaptationist thinking to investigate what are perhaps the most widely discussed literary works in western culture: Homer's The Iliad and The Odyssey.
Gottschall's book started out about ten years ago as a dissertation under the direction of ...
- Sanctified Violence in Homeric Society: Oath-Making Rituals and Narratives in...
- Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News May 1, 2006 700+ words
9780521855297 Sanctified violence in Homeric society; oath-making rituals and narratives in The Iliad. Kitts, Margo. Cambridge U. Pr. 2005 244 pages $75.00 Hardcover PA4037...
- Veblen, Camp, and the Industrial Organization of Agriculture.
- Magazine article from: Journal of Economic Issues Vaughn, Gerald F. March 1, 2001 700+ words
...with Veblen) Camp proposed that he, Rolfe, and Veblen study Homeric society together. Quoting Rolfe from Dorfman's biography of Veblen...197). I do not know the full extent to which the study of Homeric society by Camp, Ro
- Apriorism for empiricists.(Responses)
- Magazine article from: Style Crews, Frederick June 22, 2008 700+ words
...why I agreed to contribute an encouraging foreword to one of the cultural evolutionists' most promising books, Jonathan Gottschall and David Sloan Wilson's anthology The Literary, Animal. The chapters of that volume, along with most of...
- Literary Darwinism as science and myth.
- Magazine article from: Style Seamon, Roger June 22, 2008 700+ words
...traditions with "cultural texts" that may not even be literature at all. The crisis in literary study that Jonathan Gottschall traces to "a methodological failure to produce empirically valid and progressive forms of knowledge" (quoted...
- BALE BOONE SYMPOSIUM DISCUSSES EVOLUTION
- News wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News October 15, 2009 700+ words
...Monday, Oct. 19, Center Theater; * "Darwin in Wonderland: Evolution and the Science of Story," by Jonathan Gottschall, of Washington and Jefferson College Department of English, and author of "The Rape of Troy: Evolution, Violence...
- "Energetic space": the experience of literature and learning.(Essay)
- Magazine article from: College Literature Takolander, Maria June 22, 2009 700+ words
...Indeed, science has recently entered the discussion with self-proclaimed "literary Darwinists" such as Jonathan Gottschall (2005) and Catherine Salmon (2005) suggesting that to focus on the imaginative and transformative nature of...
- The literary animal; evolution and the nature of narrative.(Brief Article)(Book...
- Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News February 1, 2006 700+ words
0810122871 The literary animal; evolution and the nature of narrative. Ed. by Jonathan Gottschall and David Sloan Wilson. Northwestern U. Press 2005 304 pages $29.95 Paperback PN55 Literary critics and psychologists from...
- Sense and nonsense; Richard Posner.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) June 21, 2003 700+ words
...footnotes, on a bewildering array of topics, from the structure of court systems to sex, literature, politics, Hegel, Homeric society and medieval Iceland. He is a hero to America's political conservatives, and a marvel to intellectual fans and opponents...
