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Evolutionary psychology as a heuristic in literary studies
- 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.
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| Author: | Katja Mellmann |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-380231 |
| URL: | https://www.academia.edu/899376/ |
| ISBN: | 978-90-420-3397-9 |
| Parent Title (English): | The evolution of literature : legacies of Darwin in european cultures |
| Publisher: | Editions Rodopi |
| Place of publication: | Amsterdam [u.a.] |
| Editor: | Nicholas Saul |
| Document Type: | Part of a Book |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2015/09/09 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2011 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2015/09/09 |
| GND Keyword: | Literaturwissenschaft; Evolutionspsychologie; Heuristik |
| Page Number: | 19 |
| First Page: | 299 |
| Last Page: | 317 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 387635769 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 8 Literatur / 80 Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft / 800 Literatur und Rhetorik |
| Sammlungen: | CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft |
| BDSL-Klassifikation: | 03.00.00 Literaturwissenschaft / BDSL-Klassifikation: 03.00.00 Literaturwissenschaft > 03.06.00 Literaturtheorie |
| 03.00.00 Literaturwissenschaft / BDSL-Klassifikation: 03.00.00 Literaturwissenschaft > 03.04.00 Methodik | |
| Licence (German): |  Deutsches Urheberrecht |
