A biocultural approach to literary theory and interpretation / Nancy Easterlin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Easterlin, Nancy.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Literature.

Literature and society.

Empiricism in literature.

Social science literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (332 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"A Biocultural Approach to Literary Theory and Interpretation offers a fresh and reasoned approach to literary studies that at once preserves the central importance that interpretation plays in the humanities and embraces the exciting developments of the cognitive sciences.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Preface

1 Literature, Science, and Biocultural Interpretation

Literature and Science?

The Emergence of "English" and the Two Cultures

What Is Consilience?

The "Unimaginable Complexity" of Interpretation

The Centrality of Interpretation: Glimpsing Knowledge

Are Art and Literature Adaptations?

What Is Literature For?

2 "It Is No Tale": Narrative, Aesthetics, and Ideology

Aesthetics under the Sign of Ideology

Narrative Knowing and Epistemic Constraints

Cognition, Modernization, and Aesthetic Transformation

Unknowing the Narrative Habit: Wordsworthian Configurations

Mary Robinson's Lyrical Tales

3 Minding Ecocriticism: Human Wayfinders and Natural Places

Mental Maps for Critical Footpaths

Constructing Minds

Constructing Environment

Constructing Place

Literary Constructions of Nature, Place, and Environment

No Place: Wide Sargasso Sea and Psychic Displacement

4 Remembering the Body: Feelings, Concepts, Process

Cognitivism in the Matrix of Experience

Multiple Cognitions

From Cognitive Rhetoric to Conceptual Blending

Cognition, Consciousness, and the Modern Mind

In the Literary Matrix: Cognitive Ecological Process

Vines and Vipers: Re-regulation in Coleridge's "Dejection"

Shrinking the Self: "I Could See the Smallest Things"

5 Endangered Daughters: Sex, Mating, and Power in Darwinian Feminist Perspective

The Emergence of Darwinian Literary Criticism

Whose Life History?

Wuthering Heights and the Social Emotions

Inbreeding Depression and Romantic Incest

Mating Strategies, Monogamy, and Sexual Equality

Quarry or Wife? The Proprietary Male and Relational Possibility in The Fox

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-306) and index.

ISBN:

1-4214-0504-0

OCLC:

822894066