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Zusatztext '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 Informationen zum Autor MICHAEL WAINWRIGHTVisiting Lecturer at Staffordshire University, UK. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Oscar Wilde, the Science of Heredity, and The Picture of Dorian Gray Figuring the Financier in Dreiser, Dos Passos, and Faulkner Toward an Evolutionary Hamlet The Biosocial Anthropology of Passing Game Theory in a Faulknerian Setting An Evolutionary Reengagement with Todorov's Decameron
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Oscar Wilde, the Science of Heredity, and The Picture of Dorian Gray Figuring the Financier in Dreiser, Dos Passos, and Faulkner Toward an Evolutionary Hamlet The Biosocial Anthropology of Passing Game Theory in a Faulknerian Setting An Evolutionary Reengagement with Todorov's Decameron
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'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
