Evolution, literature, and film
Subtitle: a reader
By: edited by Brian Boyd, Joseph Carroll, and Jonathan Gottschall.
Contributors: Boyd, Brian, 1952-; Carroll, Joseph, 1949-; Gottschall, Jonathan.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 570
ISBN-13: 9780231150187; 9780231150194
Subjects: Darwin, Charles, -- 1809-1882 -- Influence; Literature and science; Evolution in literature; Evolution in motion pictures; Literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc; Motion pictures -- History; Motion pictures -- Philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I. Evolution and human nature: Evolutionary psychology: the new science of the mind (2008) / David M. Buss; title: Recapitulation and conclusion, from On the origin of species (1859) / Charles Darwin; title: The digital river (1995) / Richard Dawkins; title: General summary and conclusion, from The descent of man (1871) / Charles Darwin; title: Man: from sociobiology to sociology (1975) / Edward O. Wilson; title: The universal people (1991) / Donald E. Brown; title: Sociobiology at century's end (2000) / Edward O. Wilson; title: Evolution and explanation (2005) / Steven Pinker; title: Evolutionary social constructivism (2005) / David Sloan Wilson; title: Part II. The riddle of art: Art and adaptation (1997) / Steven Pinker; title: The arts and their interpretation (1998) / Edward O. Wilson; title: Art and intimacy: how the arts began (2000) / Ellen Dissanayake; title: Arts of seduction (2000) / Geoffrey Miller; title: Does beauty build adapted minds? toward an evolutionary theory of aesthetics, fiction, and the arts (2001) / John Tooby and Leda Cosmides; title: The uses of fiction (2009) / Denis Dutton; title: Part III. Literature, film, and evolution: theory : Getting it all wrong: bioculture critiques cultural critique (2006) / Brian Boyd; title: Imagining human nature / Joseph Carroll, Jonathan Gottschall, John Johnson, and Daniel Kruger; title: Two worlds: the ghost and the machine (2008) / Edward Slingerland; title: Consilient literary interpretation (2002) / Marcus Nordlund; title: Humanism and human nature in the renaissance (2005) / Robin Headlam Wells; title: The reality of illusion (1996) / Joseph Anderson; title: Darwin and the directors: film, emotion, and the face in the age of evolution (2003) / Murray Smith; title: What snakes, eagles, and rhesus macaques can teach us (2008) / David Bordwell; title: Part IV. Interpretations: Homeric women: re-imagining the fitness landscape (2008) / Jonathan Gottschall; title: New science, old myth: an evolutionary critique of the oedipal paradigm (2001) / Michelle Scalise Sugiyama; title: The wheel of fire and the mating game: explaining the origins of tragedy and comedy (2005) / Daniel Nettle; title: Jealousy in Othello (2007) / Marcus Nordlund; title: Wordsworth, psychoanalysis, and the "discipline of love" (2000) / Nancy Easterlin; title: Vindication and vindictiveness: oliver twist (2007) / William Flesch; title: The cuckoo's history: human nature in wuthering heights (2008) / Joseph Carroll; title: Human nature, utopia, and dystopia: Zamyatin's We (2002) / Brett Cooke; title: Paternal confidence in zora neale hurston's "the gilded six-bits" / Judith P. Saunders; title: Character in Citizen kane (1996) / Joseph Anderson; title: Convention, construction, and cinematic vision (1996/2008) / David Bordwell; title: Art and evolution: the avant-garde as test case: spiegelman in the narrative corpse (2008) / Brian Boyd; title: Part V. Literature as laboratory: Literature, science, and a new humanities (2008) / Jonathan Gottschall; title: Slash fiction and human mating psychology (2004) / Catherine Salmon and Donald Symons; title: Cultural variation is part of human nature: literary universals, context-sensitivity, and "Shakespeare in the bush" (2003) / Michelle Scalise Sugiyama; title: Paleolithic politics in British novels of the longer nineteenth century / Joseph Carroll, Jonathan Gottschall, John Johnson, and Daniel Kruger.