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A biocultural approach to literary theory and interpretationNancy Easterlin.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, (c)2012.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 315 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781421405049
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PN51 .B563 2012
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
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.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

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.

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