Evolving Hamlet : Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy and the Ethics of Natural Selection /

Using Hamlet and a number of other popular and influential seventeenth-century tragedies as case-studies, this book shows how aesthetic experience can help organize the biological functions of our brains into adaptive social networks.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fletcher, Angus (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Series:Cognitive studies in literature and performance.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Description
Summary:Using Hamlet and a number of other popular and influential seventeenth-century tragedies as case-studies, this book shows how aesthetic experience can help organize the biological functions of our brains into adaptive social networks.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (208 pages)
ISBN:9780230118386
DOI:10.1057/9780230118386