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Evolution and Popular Narrative / Dirk Vanderbeke, Brett Cooke.
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America) Available online
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America)- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Vanderbeke, Dirk, author.
- Series:
- Critical Studies ; 38.
- Critical Studies; v.38
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social sciences.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (316 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden, Boston : Brill | Rodopi, 2019.
- Summary:
- The contributors to this volume share the assumption that popular narrative, when viewed with an evolutionary lens, offers an incisive index into human nature. In theory, narrative art could take a near infinity of possible forms. In actual practice, however, particular motifs, plot patterns, stereotypical figures, and artistic devices persistently resurface, indicating specific predilections frequently at odds with our actual living conditions. Our studies explore various media and genres to gauge the impact of our evolutionary inheritance, in interdependence with the respective cultural environments, on our aesthetic appreciation. As they suggest, research into mass culture is not only indispensable for evolutionary criticism but may also contribute to our understanding of prehistoric selection pressures that still influence modern preferences in popular narrative. Contributions by David Andrews, James Carney, Mathias Clasen, Brett Cooke, Tamás Dávid-Barrett, Tom Dolack, Kathryn Duncan, Isabel Behncke Izquierdo, Joe Keener, Alex C. Parrish, Todd K. Platts, Anna Rotkirch, Judith P. Saunders, Michelle Scalise Sugiyama, Dirk Vanderbeke, and Sophia Wege.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Copyright
- Introduction / Brett Cooke and Dirk Vanderbeke
- Evolution and Slasher Films / Mathias Clasen and Todd K. Platts
- Remaking, or Not, the Classics / David Andrews
- Imagining the End of the World / Mathias Clasen
- On Love and Marriage in Popular Genres / Dirk Vanderbeke
- Social Network Complexity in Mozart’s Marriage of Figaro / Tamás Dávid-Barrett , James Carney , Anna Rotkirch and Isabel Behncke Izquierdo
- Banal Classicism and Borrowed Ethos in the Rhetorics of Human and Nonhuman Animals / Alex C. Parrish
- The Reader is Always Right / Sophia Wege
- Why We Read Detective Fiction / Judith P. Saunders
- Handel, Senesino, and Giulio Cesare, or the Irreversible Decline of Opera Seria / Brett Cooke
- We’ve Evolved into the Gutters / Joe Keener
- Theory of Mind and Mind Eating / Kathryn Duncan
- The Relevance of Popularity / Michelle Scalise Sugiyama
- A Quantitative Approach to Counterintuitive Imagery in the Hebrew Bible and the Harry Potter Novels / Tom Dolack
- Back Matter
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 90-04-39116-9
- OCLC:
- 1096225061
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004391161 DOI
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