Telling Stories / Geschichten erzählen: Literature and Evolution / Literatur und Evolution

Published by De Gruyter 2012

Telling Stories / Geschichten erzählen

Literature and Evolution / Literatur und Evolution

Edited by: Carsten Gansel and Dirk Vanderbeke

Volume 26 in the series spectrum Literaturwissenschaft / spectrum Literature

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110268683

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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.

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Carsten Gansel, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Germany; Dirk Vanderbeke, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany.

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Evolution and Literature Preface Carsten Gansel and Dirk Vanderbeke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Evolution und Literatur Vorbemerkungen Carsten Gansel and Dirk Vanderbeke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	5
I. Theoretical Approaches / Theoretische Ansätze
How Can Evolutionary Biology Enrich the Study of Literature? Karl Eibl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
Is Storytelling a Biological Adaptation? Preliminary Thoughts on How to Pose That Question Katja Mellmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	30
The Adaptive Function of the Arts Alternative Evolutionary Hypotheses Joseph Carroll Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	50
Evolution and Literary Response Brian Boyd Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	64
Storytelling from the Perspective of Evolutionary Theory Carsten Gansel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
The Unlovely Little Sister Storytelling as an Exaptive Phenomenon Dirk Vanderbeke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	110
Evolution des Kognitiven Nervenzellen, Sprache und kulturelle Adaptationen Olaf Breidbach Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
“The Roots of Art Are in the Dream” Dreams, Literature and Evolution Michaela Schrage-Früh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	156
Erfahrungshaftigkeit als Attraktivitätspotential narrativer Formen Evolutionäre Argumente für ein Primat der erfahrungshaften Medienrezeption Felix Frey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	172
Durch Analyse zur Synthese Paradigmen und kulturelle Voraussetzungen der Synästhesieforschung Christiane Heibach Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
Phantoms in the Retroscape Remarks on Anglo-American Evolutionary Aesthetics around 1900 Jörg Thomas Richter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	216
Genetische Methode oder „Instinktschöpfung“ wider die Schmerzen der „Höherentwicklung des Organismus“? Evolutionäre Kulturtheorie in völkerpsychologischer Absicht bei Wundt, Schmarsow und Worringer Norman Kasper Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
Evolutive Kanonbildung? „Natur“ und „Kultur“ im Prozess literarischer Wertung Robert Charlier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	262
II. Case Studies / Fallstudien
Shakespeare and the (Evolved) Pleasures of Revenge Anja Müller-Wood Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	279
Nepotism in Hawthorne’s “My Kinsman, Major Molineux” A Darwinian Approach to a Classic Text Judith P. Saunders Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	296
Evolutionary Art Charles Dickens’s Bleak House and the Ovidian Metamorphosis of the Victorian Novel Wolfram R. Keller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	310
Liebestod Revisited Wasted Reproductivity in Wagner’s Operas Brett Cooke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	327
“Can’t Sleep, Clowns Will Eat Me” Telling Scary Stories Mathias Clasen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	338
„Wir nehmen nicht wahr, wofür wir keine Sensoren haben.“ Zur Evolution der Geschichte in fiktionaler Literatur Stephanie Catani Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	361
Welterfolge von „All-Age-Titeln“ Evolutionspsychologische Perspektiven auf die Bis(s)-Bestseller (Twilight) von Stephenie Meyer Tina Schneider Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	377
List of Contributors Verzeichnis der Beiträgerinnen und Beiträger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	399

(Deutsch)

Languages: English, German
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars (Literary Studies, Anthropology, Evolutionary Biology), Libraries, Departments
Pages
- Front matter: 7
- Main content: 402
Keywords: Evolution and Literature; Adaptation; Narration; Darwinism

eBook

Published: February 22, 2012
ISBN: 9783110268683

Hardcover

Published: February 16, 2012
ISBN: 9783110268591