Toward a Sociobiological Hermeneutic
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Toward a Sociobiological Hermeneutic

Darwinian Essays on Literature

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Toward a Sociobiological Hermeneutic

Darwinian Essays on Literature

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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.

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Year
2012
ISBN
9780230391819

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of Figures
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. 1 Introduction: Darwinism after Darwin
  10. 2 Wilde, the Science of Heredity, and The Picture of Dorian Gray
  11. 3 Figuring the Financier in Dreiser, Dos Passos, and Faulkner
  12. 4 Game Theory in a Literary Setting
  13. 5 An Evolutionary Reengagement with Todorov’s Decameron
  14. 6 Veering toward an Evolutionary Realignment of Freud’s Hamlet
  15. 7 Parasitism in Larsen’s Passing
  16. Notes
  17. Works Cited
  18. Index