Interdisciplinary essays on Darwinism in Hispanic literature and film
Subtitle: the intersection of science and the humanities
By: edited by Jerry Hoeg and Kevin S. Larsen ; with a foreword by Joseph Henry Vogel.
Contributors: Hoeg, Jerry, 1951-; Larsen, Kevin S.
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lewiston, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780773447479
Subjects: Darwin, Charles, -- 1809-1882 -- Influence; Spanish literature -- History and criticism; Evolution (Biology) in literature; Biology in motion pictures; Science and the humanities -- Latin America; Latin American literature -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Magical realism, biological reality, and the hidden biology of fantasy, secrecy, and mystery / by David Barash; title: The science wars in a long view: putting the human in its place / by Joseph Carroll; title: Case study: the trickster genre and the free rider problem / by Michelle Scalise Sugiyama; title: Nature versus nurture in La casa de Bernarda Alba / by Jerry Hoeg; title: Darwin, sexual selection, and the Spanish novel in the late nineteenth century / by Travis Landry; title: Consilience of human evolution and a seemingly trivial detail in the "The story of the captive" by Cervantes / by Camilo Gomides; title: Toward a natural history of the soul: Cervantes, Don Quijote pt. 2, chs 13-14, and the culture of Limpieza de Sangre / by Kevin S. Larsen; title: The selective female: a Darwinian interpretation of Aluisio Azevedo's O cortico / by Ricardo Waizbort; title: Jose Marti and evolution: an analysis on nation and race / by Adriana Novoa; title: Adaptive functions of origin tales: Chicano culture and the Aztlan myth / by Jeff P. Turpin; title: Empathy and conflicting moral norms: a bio-cultural affective analysis of Babel / by David Michelson; title: Conceptual knowledge of natural selection: a comparison study between Mexican-American and Anglo-American college students / by Maria R. Gutierrez, Cruz C. Torres, and Roel R. Lopez.