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Poetics Today (2002) 23 (1): 161–179.
Published: 01 March 2002
.... 2000 “Questioning Interdisciplinarity: Cognitive Science, Evolutionary Psychology, and Literary Criticism,” Poetics Today 21 : 319 -47. Koestler, Arthur 1964 The Act of Creation (New York: Macmillan). Storey, Robert 1996 Mimesis and the Human Animal: On the Biogenetic Foundations...
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Poetics Today (2016) 37 (4): 539–571.
Published: 01 December 2016
... like navigation or the production of plays. We will get to the heart of the evolutionary psychology of aesthetic experience if we see the distributed cognition that goes into the formation of an audience as well. Facing Fictions:
The Insights and the Limits of Evolutionary Literary
Psychology...
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Poetics Today (2000) 21 (2): 319–347.
Published: 01 June 2000
...Tony Jackson Cognitive science and evolutionary psychology show great potential as explanatory paradigms for a wide array of cultural products and activities,including literature. In some scholars' minds these two fields are emerging as the cornerstones of a major “new interdisciplinarity” that may...
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (4): 513–543.
Published: 01 December 2023
... of years of collaboration by its two authors, which would not have been possible without the generous support of Bernard Comrie and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig. We would also like to thank Michalle Gal and the Shenkar College of Engineering and Design in Ramat Gan...
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (4): 647–664.
Published: 01 December 2023
... Copyright © 2023 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2023 cognitive anthropology evolutionary psychology hybrids predators minimally counterintuitive representations Imaginary animals could be like imaginary phone numbers. Fictional phone numbers look very much like real ones...
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Poetics Today (2023) 44 (4): 505–511.
Published: 01 December 2023
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Poetics Today (2011) 32 (1): 55–79.
Published: 01 March 2011
... reveal “proto-”aesthetic characteristics that babies prefer to adult-directed speech, suggesting that adult psychology and experience grow from and build upon inborn motives and preferences. Synthesizing contemporary concepts and findings from developmental psychology, ethology, evolutionary psychology...
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Poetics Today (2002) 23 (1): 43–62.
Published: 01 March 2002
...Ellen Spolsky Rather than denying the insights of post-structuralist theory, literary interpretation and theory with an evolutionary cognitive perspective actually nestles nicely within a central niche of deconstructionist thinking, that is,the critique of representation. What we learn from recent...
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Poetics Today (2003) 24 (2): 237–295.
Published: 01 June 2003
... and the Brain (1997). Deacon stands out among cognitive scientists for his conclusion that language—symbolic reference—is an“evolutionary anomaly,” that is, inassimilable to the mechanism of gene replication. By understanding the exact nature of this evolutionary anomaly, we are in a much better position...
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Poetics Today (2011) 32 (2): 235–253.
Published: 01 June 2011
...Blakey Vermeule In an important book of evolutionary literary theory, William Flesch argues that we tell stories to exercise our sense of moral outrage. In this essay I try to spell out some of the consequences of his view. First I give an overview of his argument. Then I revisit a major work...
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Poetics Today (2011) 32 (2): 349–389.
Published: 01 June 2011
... (feeling with someone); and for Hardy, altruism (nowadays seen as a consequence of empathy and sympathy) included such empathy. Hardy's strategic empathizing in his novels, in his epic poem The Dynasts , and in some of his shorter verses, I argue, links his representational strategies to his evolutionary...
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Poetics Today (2011) 32 (3): 489–520.
Published: 01 September 2011
... kinds of arguments and evidence. As part of the same broad movement toward academic interdisciplinarity, several young philosophers and some literary scholars have begun to visit the laboratories of psychologists, neurologists, and evolutionary biologists to learn and also to develop joint research...
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Poetics Today (2011) 32 (1): 81–106.
Published: 01 March 2011
... explicit discourse and cultural practice. Triune ethics theory draws on evolutionary neurobiology, virtue ethics, and multiple human sciences to illustrate three ethics that represent basic neurobiological narratives that are formed by early experience and by climates and cultures. The three basic ethical...
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Poetics Today (2011) 32 (4): 717–752.
Published: 01 December 2011
... presuppositions that still inform much of cognitive science, such as the relation of language to our experience of the natural world, the nature of subjective and objective representations, and the role of the arts in the evolutionary development of the human mind. In basing my approach to literature on Vico’s...
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Poetics Today (2017) 38 (2): 317–339.
Published: 01 June 2017
..., a productive grotesque, is an archetype. However, with the support of some recent hypotheses in evolutionary anthropology and biology, the article refurbishes the term archetype for reuse, recognizing that it signals a painful cognitive failure. The cognitive perspective allows us to understand how our brains...
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Poetics Today (2010) 31 (2): 313–329.
Published: 01 June 2010
... to combine a phenomenological approach with structuralist narratology is illustrated by a comparison of Homeric epic with modernist novels. They reconfigure time very differently and highlight that narratives allow us both to enact and to distance the temporal structures of our lives. Whereas evolutionary...
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Poetics Today (2011) 32 (1): 107–128.
Published: 01 March 2011
...; hence, the excuse should be described as a context-generating act. The article considers the features of the excuse, links excuse and narrative, provides an evolutionary consideration of the function of the excuse narrative and indicates how the excuse narrative is a key feature of fiction. © 2011...
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Poetics Today (2007) 28 (4): 807–816.
Published: 01 December 2007
... of Fictions: Interdisciplinary Perspectives.” Special issue, SubStance 30 ( 1-2 ). Buller, David J. 2005 Adapting Minds: Evolutionary Psychology and the Persistent Quest for Human Nature (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press). Carroll, Joseph 1995 Evolution and Literary Theory (Columbia: University...
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Poetics Today (2010) 31 (4): 790–793.
Published: 01 December 2010
...,
MA: Harvard University Press, 2009. xiii + 540 pp.
In this ambitious and wide-ranging book, Brian Boyd presents an account
of the origins of art and storytelling from an evolutionary perspective. Art
in general and fictional storytelling in particular are considered as evolu-
tionary...
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Poetics Today (2010) 31 (4): 787–790.
Published: 01 December 2010
...: Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction. Cambridge,
MA: Harvard University Press, 2009. xiii + 540 pp.
In this ambitious and wide-ranging book, Brian Boyd presents an account
of the origins of art and storytelling from an evolutionary perspective. Art
in general and fictional storytelling in particular...
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