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

Author/creator Easterlin, Nancy
Format Book
Publication InfoBaltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©2012.
Descriptionxi, 315 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects
Literature--History and criticism. --Theory, etc.
Literature and society.
Empiricism in literature.
Social science literature.

Contents 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? -- 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 -- 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 -- 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" -- 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 291-306) and index.
LCCN 2011034745
ISBN9781421404721 (hdbk. : acid-free paper)
ISBN9781421405049 (electronic)
ISBN1421404729 (hdbk. : acid-free paper)
ISBN1421405040 (electronic)

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