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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780792503321

Autore

Van Oort Richard

Titolo

The end of literature [[electronic resource] ] : essays in anthropological aesthetics / / Richard van Oort

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Aurora, Colo., : Davies Group, Publishers, 2009

ISBN

1-935790-76-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (247 p.)

Disciplina

820.9

Soggetti

English literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc

Literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc

Literature and anthropology

Literature and science

Anthropology - Philosophy

Literature - Philosophy

Anthropology in literature

Science in literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- 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 -- Part II: The end of literature: The critic as ethnographer; The culture of criticism -- Part III. Two originary analyses: Shakespeare and the idea of the modern; A race of devils: Frankenstein, romanticism, and the tragedy of human origin.