Evolution and Literary TheoryUniversity of Missouri Press, 1995 - 518 Seiten Carroll anatomizes the irrationalism of current literary theory with surgical precision. In a concise, lucid prose, he lays bare the sophistries at the heart of the doctrines propounded by Derrida, Foucault, Jameson, Greenblatt, Eagleton, J. Hillis Miller, Fish, and many others. In opposition to the textualism and indeterminacy that constitute the central doctrines of poststructuralism, Carroll affiliates himself with a realist and naturalist tradition of thought that runs from Darwin and Huxley, through Leslie Stephen and Thorstein Veblen, to Konrad Lorenz and Karl Popper. He offers a comprehensive synthesis of current evolutionary theory in the human sciences, and he shows why the evolutionary paradigm provides the only adequate source for a modern theory of culture. |
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... suggests that " what is adaptive for other species is a particular set of highly specific referential capacities . What is adaptive for our species is the system of reference as a whole , the fact that any manifestation of the physical ...
... suggests that " what languages grammaticized were the things that had proved most useful to us in evolution " ( 56 ) . In similar fashion , concepts or the lexical elements of language “ are princi- pally determined by function and by ...
... suggests that literature is in some indeterminate sense associated with the superstructure , thereby affirming the validity of the Marxist model . On the other , he suggests that literature is not altogether and absolutely part of the ...
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CHAPTER | 96 |
CHAPTER THREE | 129 |
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