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The Early Evolutionary Imagination - Literature and Human Nature (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
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The Early Evolutionary Imagination - Literature and Human Nature (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)
Series: Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance
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Darwinian evolution is an imaginative problem that has been passed
down to us unsolved. It is our most powerful explanation of
humanity's place in nature, but it is also more cognitively
demanding and less emotionally satisfying than any myth. From the
publication of the Origin of Species in 1859, evolution has pushed
our capacity for storytelling into overdrive, sparking fairy tales,
adventure stories, political allegories, utopias, dystopias, social
realist novels, and existential meditations. Though this influence
on literature has been widely studied, it has not been explained
psychologically. This book argues for the adaptive function of
storytelling, integrates traditional humanist scholarship with
current knowledge about the evolved and adapted human mind, and
calls for literary scholars to reframe their interpretation of the
first authors who responded to Darwin.
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