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Telling Stories / Geschichten erzählen

Literature and Evolution / Literatur und Evolution
  • Edited by: Carsten Gansel and Dirk Vanderbeke
Languages: English, German
Published/Copyright: 2012
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The essays collected in this volume highlight the narrative as a phenomenon inherent in human nature. They examine the likely purpose of artistic and literary expression and its contribution to survival in an early human environment. They also consider the developing interest in shaping experience through the narrative, and investigate the consequent significance of traits acquired throughout the ages for the production and reception of texts. In doing so, the book provides a highly diverse overview of the latest research and debates in this innovative field of research.

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Carsten Gansel, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen, Germany; Dirk Vanderbeke, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany.

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    Frontmatter

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    Contents / Inhalt

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    Evolution and Literature

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    Carsten Gansel and Dirk Vanderbeke
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    Evolution und Literatur

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    Carsten Gansel and Dirk Vanderbeke
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  • I. Theoretical Approaches / Theoretische Ansätze
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    How Can Evolutionary Biology Enrich the Study of Literature?

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    Karl Eibl
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    Is Storytelling a Biological Adaptation?

    30
    Katja Mellmann
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    The Adaptive Function of the Arts

    50
    Joseph Carroll
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    Evolution and Literary Response

    64
    Brian Boyd
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    Storytelling from the Perspective of Evolutionary Theory

    77
    Carsten Gansel
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    The Unlovely Little Sister

    110
    Dirk Vanderbeke
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    Evolution des Kognitiven

    121
    Olaf Breidbach
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    “The Roots of Art Are in the Dream”

    156
    Michaela Schrage-Früh
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    Erfahrungshaftigkeit als Attraktivitätspotential narrativer Formen

    172
    Felix Frey
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    Durch Analyse zur Synthese

    195
    Christiane Heibach
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    Phantoms in the Retroscape

    216
    Jörg Thomas Richter
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    Genetische Methode oder „Instinktschöpfung“ wider die Schmerzen der „Höherentwicklung des Organismus“?

    235
    Norman Kasper
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    Evolutive Kanonbildung?

    262
    Robert Charlier
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  • II. Case Studies / Fallstudien
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    Shakespeare and the (Evolved) Pleasures of Revenge

    279
    Anja Müller-Wood
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    Nepotism in Hawthorne’s “My Kinsman, Major Molineux”

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    Judith P. Saunders
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    Evolutionary Art

    310
    Wolfram R. Keller
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    Liebestod Revisited

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    Brett Cooke
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    “Can’t Sleep, Clowns Will Eat Me”

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    Mathias Clasen
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    „Wir nehmen nicht wahr, wofür wir keine Sensoren haben.“

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    Stephanie Catani
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    Welterfolge von „All-Age-Titeln“

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    Tina Schneider
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    List of Contributors

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Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
February 22, 2012
eBook ISBN:
9783110268683
Hardcover published on:
February 16, 2012
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110268591
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Front matter:
7
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402
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110268683
eBook ISBN: 9783110268683
Hardcover ISBN: 9783110268591
Keywords for this book
Evolution and Literature; Adaptation; Narration; Darwinism
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