The end of literature
Subtitle: essays in originary aesthetics
By: Richard van Oort.
Publisher: The Davies Group, Publishers
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Aurora, Colo
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781934542057
Subjects: English literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc; Literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc; Literature and anthropology; Literature and science; Anthropology -- Philosophy; Literature -- Philosophy; Anthropology in literature; Science in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Part I. The science of human origin: Cognitive science and the problem of representation; Imitation and human ontogeny: Michael Tomasello and the scene of joint attention; title: Part II: The end of literature: The critic as ethnographer; The culture of criticism; title: Part III. Two originary analyses: Shakespeare and the idea of the modern; A race of devils: Frankenstein, romanticism, and the tragedy of human origin.