Evolution and Popular Narrative

Evolution and Popular Narrative argues that an evolutionary approach to popular narrative provides an incisive index into human nature. The contributors explore various media and genres to gauge the interdependency of human nature and culture in our aesthetic appreciation.

About the author

Dirk Vanderbeke is Professor of English Studies at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena. He has published on a variety of topics, e.g. physics and literature, evolutionary criticism, James Joyce, Thomas Pynchon, John Milton, and popular narratives including comics and graphic novels. Brett Cooke is Professor of Russian at Texas A&M University. He is the author of Pushkin and the Creative Process, and Human Nature in Utopia: Zamyatin's We, (co-) editor of Sociobiology and the Arts, The Fantastic Other, Biopoetics: Evolutionary Explorations in the Art, and Critical Insights: War and Peace.

Product details

• Assisted by: Dirk Vanderbeke (Editor)
• Publisher: de Gruyter Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.06.2019
• EAN: 9789004391154
• ISBN: 978-90-04-39115-4
• No. of pages: 312
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 236 mm x 23 mm
• Weight: 703 g
• Series: CRITICAL STUDIES
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > General, dictionaries