| 书目名称 | The Early Evolutionary Imagination |
| 副标题 | Literature and Human |
| 编辑 | Emelie Jonsson |
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| 概述 | Assimilates traditional humanist scholarship.Integrates it with current knowledge about the evolved and adapted human mind.Uses research on the imagination to argue for the adaptive function of storyt |
| 丛书名称 | Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance |
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| 描述 | .Darwinian evolution is an imaginative problem that has been passed down to us unsolved. It is our most powerful explanation of humanity’s place in nature, but it is also more cognitively demanding and less emotionally satisfying than any myth. From the publication of the .Origin of Species .in 1859, evolution has pushed our capacity for storytelling into overdrive, sparking fairy tales, adventure stories, political allegories, utopias, dystopias, social realist novels, and existential meditations. Though this influence on literature has been widely studied, it has not been explained psychologically. This book argues for the adaptive function of storytelling, integrates traditional humanist scholarship with current knowledge about the evolved and adapted human mind, and calls for literary scholars to reframe their interpretation of the first authors who responded to Darwin.. |
| 出版日期 | Book 2021 |
| 关键词 | Evolutionary Literary Theory; Cognitive Literary Theory; Victorian Fiction; Darwin; Origin of Species; Ev |
| 版次 | 1 |
| doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82738-0 |
| isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-82740-3 |
| isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-82738-0Series ISSN 2945-7297 Series E-ISSN 2945-7300 |
| issn_series | 2945-7297 |
| copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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