First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Literary Darwinism: Evolution, Human Nature, and Literature

Literature & Fiction

Carroll, Joseph

British & Irish

Routledge

First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &amp; Francis, an informa company.

Literary Darwinism

The Cultural Theory of Matthew Arnold

History & Criticism

Univ. Of California Pr.

We were created to worship Jesus Christ. We were created for Him, to become something like Him in order that He might find pleasure in us.' The apostle Paul also believed this to be true. He made clear in word and deed that his greatest desire was to know Christ, to love Christ, and to have intimate fellowship with Christ. Because Jesus Christ was central in Paul's life, he was able to accomplish great things for God. Drawing from Scripture, with special attention to the book of Revelation, Pastor Carroll sets forth simple, practical concepts essential to true worship. In addition, he refers to the words and habits of many of God's best-known followers, from Bible times to modern day. Their thoughts and experiences will encourage and inspire you. True worship is more than setting aside a few minutes each day to read the Bible and pray. True worship requires complete commitment of emotions, intellect, and will. Pastor Carroll will help you understand the need for and the results of that commitment. And, best of all, he will show you how to make and live that commitment.

BLS How to Worship Jesus Christ (Believer's Life System)

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Believers Life System

Wallace Stevens' Supreme Fiction: A New Romanticism

Louisiana State Univ Pr

Carroll 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.

Evolution and Literary Theory (Volume 1)

University of Missouri

The Perfect Home: Best of Style

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Home Improvement & Design

Reed Books

Reading Human Nature: Literary Darwinism in Theory and Practice

Showcases the latest developments in literary Darwinism, a powerful approach that integrates evolutionary social science with literary humanism. As the founder and leading practitioner of “literary Darwinism,” Joseph Carroll remains at the forefront of a major movement in literary studies. Signaling key new developments in this approach, Reading Human Nature contains trenchant theoretical essays, innovative empirical research, sweeping surveys of intellectual history, and sophisticated interpretations of specific literary works, including The Picture of Dorian Gray, Wuthering Heights, The Mayor of Casterbridge, and Hamlet. Carroll makes a compelling case that literary Darwinism is not just another “school” or movement in literary theory. It is the moving force in a fundamental paradigm change in the humanities—a revolution. Evolutionary psychologists and anthropologists have provided massive evidence that motives and emotions are rooted in biology, but they have given far too little attention to the products of the imagination. By integrating evolutionary social science with literary humanism, Carroll offers a more complete and adequate understanding of human nature. “[Carroll] is an unapologetic and powerful defender of literary Darwinism, and more generally a scientific approach to all things human. Part of his project is a critique of recent trends in literary criticism that seek to devalue science, deny biological human nature, and give priority to language and discourse. It is here that his expertise will be most valuable to the readers who are not fully immersed in the twists and turns of recent literary theory.” — Quarterly Review of Biology “Carroll … makes a strong argument for literary Darwinism as a revolutionary force in humanistic studies … Carroll argues convincingly for the shift from speculative theories to an evolutionist’s perspective grounded in ‘an empirically based model of human nature,’ a shift that will enable generation of new and relevant knowledge.” — CHOICE “An important accomplishment by one of the leading scholars in the field of evolutionary studies. The book brings together some of Carroll’s best work to date and is the most current statement available regarding the new evolutionary thinking about culture.” — Michael Ryan, coeditor of Literary Theory: An Anthology “A major summa from a major theorist. In Reading Human Nature, Joseph Carroll revisits the subdiscipline he founded: evolutionary literary studies. Analytical and empirical, this diverse body of analyses reaffirms central humanist ideas, including individual identity, authorial intentions, and reference to the outside world. Literary scholars, critics, and theorists: ignore this book at your peril.” — Peter Swirski, author of Literature, Analytically Speaking: Explorations in the Theory of Interpretation, Analytic Aesthetics, and Evolution

State University of New York Press

Showcases the latest developments in literary Darwinism, a powerful approach that integrates evolutionary social science with literary humanism.As the founder and leading practitioner of “literary Darwinism,” Joseph Carroll remains at the forefront of a major movement in literary studies. Signaling key new developments in this approach, Reading Human Nature contains trenchant theoretical essays, innovative empirical research, sweeping surveys of intellectual history, and sophisticated interpretations of specific literary works, including The Picture of Dorian Gray, Wuthering Heights, The Mayor of Casterbridge, and Hamlet. Evolutionists in the social sciences have succeeded in delineating basic motives but have given far too little attention to the imagination. Carroll makes a compelling case that literary Darwinism is not just another “school” or movement in literary theory. It is the moving force in a fundamental paradigm change in the humanities―a revolution. Psychologists and anthropologists have provided massive evidence that human motives and emotions are rooted in human biology. Since motives and emotions enter into all the products of a human imagination, humanists now urgently need to assimilate a modern scientific understanding of “human nature.” Integrating evolutionary social science with literary humanism, Carroll offers a more complete and adequate understanding of human nature.

State Univ of New York Pr

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