株式会社極東書店トップ ＞ 商品一覧 ＞ The Early Evolutionary Imagination : Literature and Human Nature. 1st ed. 2021.
商品詳細
The Early Evolutionary Imagination : Literature and Human Nature. 1st ed. 2021.
・ISBN 978-3-030-82740-3 paper EUR 119.99
￥32,072.- (税込) ※（※）価格はご注文時の参考価格となります。
納品価格につきましては書籍の入荷時点で確定となります。
版元の原価改定、外国為替の変動等により異なる場合がございますので、予めご了承下さい。
| 著者・編者 | Jonsson, Emelie, |
|---|---|
| シリーズ | Cognitive Studies in Literature and Performance |
| 出版社 | (Springer Nature Switzerland AG, SZ) |
| 出版年月 | 2022 |
| ページ数 | 300 pp. |
| 言語 | ENG |
| ニュース番号 | ＜L25-11427＞ |
解説
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.