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Human Nature, 1995
Presupposing that all knowledge is the study of a unitary order of nature, the author maintains that the study of literature should be included within the larger field of evolutionary theory. He outlines four elementary concepts in evolutionary theory, and he argues that these concepts should regulate our understanding of literature.
Joseph Carroll
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Presupposing that all knowledge is the study of a unitary order of nature, the author maintains that the study of literature should be included within the larger field of evolutionary theory. He outlines four elementary concepts in evolutionary theory, and he argues that these concepts should regulate our understanding of literature.
Joseph Carroll
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Simulating the cultural evolution of literary genres
Proceedings of the 15th annual conference companion on Genetic and evolutionary computation, 2013The purpose of this paper is to explore the evolutionary dynamics of literary genre: the development of the 19th Century British novel is used as a motivating case study. The author constructs an agent-based model in NetLogo consisting of two interacting levels: (1) a genetic algorithm in which cultural forms (e.g., works of literature, pieces of music,
Graham Alexander Sack +2 more
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The Evolution of Literary Theory and the Literary Mind
Interdisciplinary Literary Studies, 2013[Abstract Not Available]
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A systems model of the evolution of literary paradigms
Journal of Literary Semantics, 2002exaly +2 more sources
Revolution is Evolution: Evolution as a Trope in Šklovskijʼs Literary History
Russian Literature, 2011Abstract In this article the author examines the use of the term and concept of evolution in the works of Viktor Shklovskii. Attention is also paid to the role Darwin, Lamarck and questions of evolution played in the work of other Formalists and in the cultural life of the 1910s and 1920s.
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