進化で読む１９世紀文学 Graphing Jane Austen : The Evolutionary Basis of Literary Meaning (Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance)

Carroll, Joseph/ Gottschall, Jonathan/ Johnson, John A./ Kruger, Danie

Palgrave Macmillan（2012/04発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 305 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781137002402
• DDC分類 823.80927

基本説明

This book helps to bridge the gap between science and literary scholarship. Building on findings in the evolutionary human sciences, the authors construct a model of human nature in order to illuminate the evolved psychology that shapes the organization of characters in nineteenth-century British novels, from Jane Austen to E. M. Forster.

Full Description

This book helps to bridge the gap between science and literary scholarship. Building on findings in the evolutionary human sciences, the authors construct a model of human nature in order to illuminate the evolved psychology that shapes the organization of characters in nineteenth-century British novels, from Jane Austen to E. M. Forster.

Contents

PART I: METHODS AND RESULTS A User's Manual Agonistic Structure Differentiated by Sex PART II: IMPLICATIONS Determinate Meanings Sexual Politics Adaptive Function PART III: CASE STUDIES Jane Austen, by the Numbers Indifferent Tragedy in The Mayor of Casterbridge