The end of literature
Subtitle: essays in anthropological aesthetics
By: Richard van Oort
Publisher: The Davies Group, Publishers
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Aurora, Colo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 231
ISBN-13: 9781934542057
Subjects: Anthropology in literature; Literature; Literature and anthropology; English literature; Philosophy; History and criticism; Anthropology; Literature and science; Science in literature; Theory
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-223) 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.