Toward a sociobiological hermeneutic
Subtitle: Darwinian essays on literature
By: Michael Wainwright
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780230391802
Subjects: Literature and science; Social Darwinism in literature; Evolution (Biology) in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Darwinism after Darwin; title: Wilde, the science of heredity, and The Picture of Dorian Gray; title: Figuring the financier in Dreiser, Dos Passos, And Faulkner; title: Game theory in a literary setting; title: An evolutionary reengagement with Todorov's Decameron; title: Veering toward an evolutionary realignment of Freud's Hamlet; title: Parasitism in Larsen's passing.