Evolution and Literary Theory Hardback
by Joseph Carroll
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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.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:512 pages, bibliography, index
- Publisher:University of Missouri Press
- Publication Date:03/03/1994
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- ISBN:9780826209795
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:512 pages, bibliography, index
- Publisher:University of Missouri Press
- Publication Date:03/03/1994
- Category:
- ISBN:9780826209795