The literary animal : evolution and the nature of narrative /
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Evanston, Ill. :
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword from the scientific side / E.O. Wilson
- Foreword from the literary side / Frederick Crews
- Introduction : Literature
- a last frontier in human evolutionary studies / Jonathan Gotttschall and David Sloan Wilson
- Part I. Evolution and literary theory
- Literature, science, and human nature / Ian McEwan
- Evolutionary social constructivism / David Sloan Wilson
- From Lacan to Darwin / Dylan Evans
- What happens in Hamlet? Exploring the psychological foundations of drama / Daniel Nettle
- Human nature and literary meaning : a theoretical model illustrated with a critique of Pride and prejudice / Joseph Carroll
- The problem of romantic love : Shakespeare and evolutionary psychology / Marcus Nordlund
- Male bonding in the epics and romances / Robin Fox
- Part II. The evolutionary riddle of art
- Evolutionary theories of art / Brian Boyd
- Reverse-engineering narrative : evidence of special design / Michelle Scalise Sugiyama
- Part III. Darwinian theory and scientific methods
- Quantitative literary study : a modest manifesto and testing the hypotheses of feminist fairy tale studies / Jonathan Gottschall
- Proper hero dads and dark hero cads : alternate mating strategies exemplified in British romantic literature / Daniel J. Kruger, Maryanne Fisher, Ian Jobling
- Crossing the abyss : erotica and the intersection of evolutionary psychology and literary studies / Catherine Salmon
- Afterword / Denis Dutton.
