Toward a Sociobiological Hermeneutic von M. Wainwright | Darwinian Essays on Literature | ISBN 9780230391802

Toward a Sociobiological Hermeneutic

Darwinian Essays on Literature

von M. Wainwright
Buchcover Toward a Sociobiological Hermeneutic | M. Wainwright | EAN 9780230391802 | ISBN 0-230-39180-X | ISBN 978-0-230-39180-2

'Welcome to a very new and very different interpretive world. Brilliant.' - John Schad, professor of Modern Literature, University of Lancaster

'Crammed with historical and philosophical analysis, this highly original book provides a wonderful education in Darwinism and related fields (such as game theory), an education that is for everyone, whether one is inside or outside academia.' - Timothy Morton, professor of English, University of California Davis

Toward a Sociobiological Hermeneutic

Darwinian Essays on Literature

von M. Wainwright
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.