ISBN:
9783110268591
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (412 p.)
Series Statement:
spectrum Literaturwissenschaft / spectrum Literature
Series Statement:
Spectrum Literaturwissenschaft / Spectrum Literature Ser v.26
Parallel Title:
Print version Telling Stories / Geschichten erzählen : Literature and Evolution / Literatur und Evolution
DDC:
808.036
Keywords:
Human evolution in literature
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Literature and science
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Storytelling
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
The essays collected in this volume highlight the narrative as a phenomenon inherent in human nature. They examine the likely purpose of artistic and literary expression and its contribution to survival in an early human environment. They also consider the developing interest in shaping experience through the narrative, and investigate the consequent significance of traits acquired throughout the ages for the production and reception of texts. In doing so, the book provides a highly diverse overview of the latest research and debates in this innovative field of research
Description / Table of Contents:
Evolution and Literature. Preface; Evolution und Literatur. Vorbemerkungen; I. Theoretical Approaches / Theoretische Ansätze; How Can Evolutionary Biology Enrich the Study of Literature?; Is Storytelling a Biological Adaptation? Preliminary Thoughts on How to Pose that Question; The Adaptive Function of the Arts. Alternative Evolutionary Hypotheses; Evolution and Literary Response; Storytelling from the Perspective of Evolutionary Theory; The Unlovely Little Sister. Storytelling as an Exaptive Phenomenon; Evolution des Kognitiven. Nervenzellen, Sprache und kulturelle Adaptationen
Description / Table of Contents:
Evolutive Kanonbildung? „Natur" und „Kultur" im Prozess literarischer WertungII. Case Studies / Fallstudien; Shakespeare and the (Evolved) Pleasures of Revenge; Nepotism in Hawthorne's "My Kinsman, Major Molineux". A Darwinian Approach to a Classic Text; Evolutionary Art. Charles Dickens's "Bleak House" and the Ovidian Metamorphosis of the Victorian Novel; Liebestod Revisited. Wasted Reproductivity in Wagner's Operas; "Can't Sleep, Clowns Will Eat Me". Telling Scary Stories; „Wir nehmen nicht wahr, wofür wir keine Sensoren haben". Zur Evolution der Geschichte in fiktionaler Literatur
Description / Table of Contents:
Welterfolge von „All-Age-Titeln". Evolutionspsychologische Perspektiven auf die Bis(s)-Bestseller (Twilight) von Stephenie MeyerList of Contributors. Verzeichnis der Beiträger umd Beiträgerinnen;
Description / Table of Contents:
"The Roots of Art Are in the Dream". Dreams, Literature and EvolutionErfahrungshaftigkeit als Attraktivitätspotential narrativer Formen. Evolutionäre Argumente für ein Primat der erfahrungshaften Medienrezeption; Durch Analyse zur Synthese. Paradigmen und kulturelle Voraussetzungen der Synästhesieforschung; Phantoms in the Retroscape. Remarks on Anglo-American Evolutionary Aesthetics around 1900; Genetische Methode oder „Instinktschöpfung" wider die Schmerzen der „Höherentwicklung des Organismus"? Evolutionäre Kulturtheorie in völkerpsychologischer Absicht bei Wundt, Schmarsow und Worringer
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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