Emelie Jonsson

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The Early Evolutionary Imagination: Literature and Human Nature (2021)Paperback - 2021, 1 October 2022

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Part of Series
Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance
Print Length
300 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Palgrave MacMillan
Date Published
1 Oct 2022
ISBN-10
3030827402
ISBN-13
9783030827403

Description

Darwinian evolution is an imaginative problem that has been passed down to us unsolved. It is our most powerful explanation of humanity's place in nature, but it is also more cognitively demanding and less emotionally satisfying than any myth. From the publication of the Origin of Species in 1859, evolution has pushed our capacity for storytelling into overdrive, sparking fairy tales, adventure stories, political allegories, utopias, dystopias, social realist novels, and existential meditations. Though this influence on literature has been widely studied, it has not been explained psychologically. This book argues for the adaptive function of storytelling, integrates traditional humanist scholarship with current knowledge about the evolved and adapted human mind, and calls for literary scholars to reframe their interpretation of the first authors who responded to Darwin.

Product Details

Author:
Emelie Jonsson
Book Edition:
2021
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
NL
Date Published:
1 October 2022
Dimensions:
21.01 x 14.81 x 1.68 cm
Genre:
19th Century
ISBN-10:
3030827402
ISBN-13:
9783030827403
Language:
English
Location:
Cham
Pages:
300
Weight:
376.48 gm

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