An Overview of Darwinian Literary Studies: A New Science-Based Approach to Literature by Gindho Rizano, Marliza Yeni

Subjects: “…literary darwinism…”
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Necessary Literature: On the Border Between Literature and Evolution by Michele Cometa

“…The most decisive steps in this direction have been made however, not by the theorists of more insightful and certainly more plausible “cultural studies” (Kulturwissenschaft), but by those scholars who are moving, especially in the Anglo-Saxon context, towards the so-called “literary Darwinism”. Literary criticism, above all that of European origin, however, withdraw in the face of these propositions, dusting off up the old anathema of reductionism (undoubtedly, a risk of the applying the evolutionary theory to culture), rather than genuinely engaging with the debate. …”
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Natura o cultura? L’antropologia della letteratura tra Wolfgang Iser e Darwinismo letterario by Salvatore Cifuni

“…Qui, infatti, grazie soprattutto a Joseph Carroll, è nato e si è diffuso il cosiddetto Literary Darwinism che, come Iser, ritiene che la letteratura – e quindi la finzione – sia un tratto radicalmente caratteristico dell’essere umano. …”
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