M. Wainwright

Broschiertes Buch

Toward a Sociobiological Hermeneutic

Darwinian Essays on Literature

Beschreibung

This book draws on post-Darwinian advances in scientific disciplines to reanalyze canonical works of literature. This wide-ranging analysis includes studies of the works of Oscar Wilde, Sophocles, Shakespeare, Giovanni Boccaccio, Theodore Dreiser, John Roderigo Dos Passos, and William Faulkner.

Autor

MICHAEL WAINWRIGHTVisiting Lecturer at Staffordshire University, UK.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Palgrave Macmillan US / Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-349-35174-9
• 1st ed. 2012
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 327g
• ISBN-13: 9781349351749
• ISBN-10: 1349351741
• Artikelnr.: 45076223

Rezensionen

'Welcome to a very new and very different interpretive world. Brilliant.' - John Schad, professor of Modern Literature, University of Lancaster

'Crammed with historical and philosophical analysis, this highly original book provides a wonderful education in Darwinism and related fields (such as game theory), an education that is for everyone, whether one is inside or outside academia.' - Timothy Morton, professor of English, University of California Davis