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. |
Im Buch
Ergebnisse 1-3 von 59
... desire for conformity to facts . " The subjective orientation is dominated by the desire for coherence or systemic in- tegrity in a theoretical or figurative structure , and the objective orientation by the desire for a correspondence ...
... desire for pleasure , the desire to see or hear , the desire to know and comprehend , or the desire to exercise his or her own will in effective action . As a symbolic figure , a protago- nist could represent the author's own drive to ...
... desire for variety is not shared in equal measure by women , but men also want the secure , stable relationships that women do . The reproductive logic of these conflicting desires is quite clear . A roving eye promotes a man's chance ...
Inhalt
Plan of the Book | 12 |
16 | 32 |
Systemic Totalization and Pluralistic Compromise | 40 |
Urheberrecht | |
16 weitere Abschnitte werden nicht angezeigt.