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The end of literature : essays in anthropological aesthetics /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Van Oort, Richard
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Aurora, Colo. : The Davies Group, Publishers, 2009.
Subjects:
English literature > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Literature > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Literature and anthropology.
Literature and science.
Anthropology > Philosophy.
Literature > Philosophy.
Anthropology in literature.
Science in literature.
Online Access:Table of contents only
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Part I. The science of human origin: Cognitive science and the problem of representation; Imitation and human ontogeny: Michael Tomasello and the scene of joint attention
  • Part II: The end of literature: The critic as ethnographer; The culture of criticism
  • Part III. Two originary analyses: Shakespeare and the idea of the modern; A race of devils: Frankenstein, romanticism, and the tragedy of human origin.