Evolution and Literary TheoryCarroll anatomizes the irrationalism of current literary theory with surgical precision. In a concise, lucid prose, he lays bare the sophistries at the heart of the doctrines propounded by Derrida, Foucault, Jameson, Greenblatt, Eagleton, J. Hillis Miller, Fish, and many others. In opposition to the textualism and indeterminacy that constitute the central doctrines of poststructuralism, Carroll affiliates himself with a realist and naturalist tradition of thought that runs from Darwin and Huxley, through Leslie Stephen and Thorstein Veblen, to Konrad Lorenz and Karl Popper. He offers a comprehensive synthesis of current evolutionary theory in the human sciences, and he shows why the evolutionary paradigm provides the only adequate source for a modern theory of culture. |
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... Critical Paradigm 4. Historicism Old and New 5. Systemic Totalization and Pluralistic Compromise PART I A DARWINIAN CRITICAL PARADIGM CHAPTER ONE POSTSTRUCTURALISM , TRADITIONAL CRITICISM , AND EVOLUTIONARY THEORY 1. The Elimination of ...
... Critical Concepts 2. The Psyche 4. The Problem of Categorical Limitation 228 236 238 5. Interpretive Applications of the Categories 249 CHAPTER SIX THE SEXUAL DYAD 268 1. Social Causation and Biocultural Interaction 268 2. Gendered ...
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