...Eyal Segal Carroll Joseph , Reading Human Nature: Literary Darwinism in Theory and Practice . New York : State University of New York Press , 2011 . xvi + 352 pp. © 2013 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2013 New Books at a Glance Marina Grishakova and Marie...

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...William Flesch In Evolving Hamlet: Seventeenth Century English Tragedy and the Ethics of Natural Selection , Angus Fletcher rightly argues against the idea, enthusiastically embraced by literary Darwinism, that evolution explains how exquisitely the individual mind and perhaps the progressive...

.... Eyal Segal, Tel Aviv University, Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics DOI 10.1215/03335372-1812171 Joseph Carroll, Reading Human Nature: Literary Darwinism in Theory and Practice. New York: State University of New York Press, 2011. xvi 1352 pp...

.... Eyal Segal, Tel Aviv University, Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics DOI 10.1215/03335372-1812171 Joseph Carroll, Reading Human Nature: Literary Darwinism in Theory and Practice. New York: State University of New York Press, 2011. xvi 1352 pp...

.... Eyal Segal, Tel Aviv University, Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics DOI 10.1215/03335372-1812171 Joseph Carroll, Reading Human Nature: Literary Darwinism in Theory and Practice. New York: State University of New York Press, 2011. xvi 1352 pp...

.... Eyal Segal, Tel Aviv University, Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics DOI 10.1215/03335372-1812171 Joseph Carroll, Reading Human Nature: Literary Darwinism in Theory and Practice. New York: State University of New York Press, 2011. xvi 1352 pp...

.... Eyal Segal, Tel Aviv University, Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics DOI 10.1215/03335372-1812171 Joseph Carroll, Reading Human Nature: Literary Darwinism in Theory and Practice. New York: State University of New York Press, 2011. xvi 1352 pp...

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... on literary Darwinism in Critical Inquiry, New Literary History, and Narrative, and he is the author of Evolving Hamlet (Palgrave, 2011) and Comic Democracies ( Johns Hopkins, 2016). Poetics Today 37:4 (December 2016) DOI 10.1215/03335372-3752144 q 2016 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 720...

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...,” expanding it, as she goes, to include the influence of Charles Darwin, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Sigmund Freud. What she shares with Mason is the sense that confusion and controversy rather than a stable methodological approach have been the main products of that tradition. Baron highlights four main “areas...

...Alan Richardson The new intellectual climate inaugurated by the cognitive revolution can help elicit neglected contexts for literary historical study, to pose new questions for analysis and reopen old ones. The current challenge to social constructionist accounts of subjectivity, for example, can...

..., general concepts of evolutionary theory about the necessary imprecision of natural processes, and the modularity theory of cognition. In this case the primary analogy finds that contemporary Darwinism ‘‘is attractive to literary theory because the processes it hypothesizes for the natural world 168...

...Ellen Spolsky Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2008 Jonathan Gottschall and David Sloan Wilson, eds., The Literary Animal: Evolution and the Nature of Narrative . Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2005. 336 pp. Abbott, H. Porter, ed. 2001 “On the Origin...

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