TY  - CHAP
A1  - Mellmann, Katja
A2  - Saul, Nicholas
T1  - Evolutionary psychology as a heuristic in literary studies
T2  - The evolution of literature : legacies of Darwin in european cultures
N2  - There has been a great deal of uproar about Darwinian approaches in literary scholarship. Statements range from enthusiastic prophecies of a new paradigm for literary studies to acrimonious scoldings of reductionism. Believing that the major challenge is first to find good questions to which evolutionary psychology might provide us with good answers, I outline and critically assess different veins of argumentation as revealed in recent contributions to the field. As an alternative to some simplistic mimeticism in present Literary Darwinism, I put forward the idea of evolutionary psychology as a heuristic theory that serves to resolve defined problems in interpretation and literary theory.
KW  - Literaturwissenschaft
KW  - Evolutionspsychologie
KW  - Heuristik
Y1  - 2015
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/38023
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-380231
UR  - https://www.academia.edu/899376/
SN  - 978-90-420-3397-9
SP  - 299
EP  - 317
PB  - Editions Rodopi
CY  - Amsterdam [u.a.]
ER  -