04048nam 2200613 a 450 991081697990332120240416174755.01-4214-0504-0(CKB)3170000000046035(OCoLC)822894066(CaPaEBR)ebrary10611266(SSID)ssj0000582005(PQKBManifestationID)11415558(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000582005(PQKBWorkID)10540053(PQKB)11164863(MiAaPQ)EBC3318608(MdBmJHUP)muse16020(Au-PeEL)EBL3318608(CaPaEBR)ebr10611266(OCoLC)923195442(EXLCZ)99317000000004603520110908d2012 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrA biocultural approach to literary theory and interpretation /Nancy Easterlin1st ed.Baltimore, Md. Johns Hopkins University Pressc20121 online resource (332 p.) Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph1-4214-0472-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-306) and index.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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Z."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.LiteratureHistory and criticismTheory, etcLiterature and societyEmpiricism in literatureSocial science literatureLiteratureHistory and criticismTheory, etc.Literature and society.Empiricism in literature.Social science literature.809/.93355Easterlin Nancy1677439MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910816979903321A biocultural approach to literary theory and interpretation4044309UNINA