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Early Evolutionary Imagination

Emelie Jonsson
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      Darwinian evolution is an imaginative problem that has been passed down to us unsolved. It is our most powerful explanation of humanity’s place in nature, but it is also more cognitively demanding and less emotionally satisfying than any myth. From the publication of the Origin of Species in 1859, evolution has pushed our capacity for storytelling into overdrive, sparking fairy tales, adventure stories, political allegories, utopias, dystopias, social realist novels, and existential meditations. Though this influence on literature has been widely studied, it has not been explained psychologically. This book argues for the adaptive function of storytelling, integrates traditional humanist scholarship with current knowledge about the evolved and adapted human mind, and calls for literary scholars to reframe their interpretation of the first authors who responded to Darwin.
      Format: Paperback / softback CONTRIBUTORS: Emelie Jonsson EAN: 9783030827403 COUNTRY: Switzerland PAGES: WEIGHT: 410 g HEIGHT: 210 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Springer Nature Switzerland AG DATE PUBLISHED: 2022-10-01 CITY: GENRE: LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution, SCIENCE / History WIDTH: 148 cm SPINE:

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      Literary theory, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Cognition and cognitive psychology, History of science, Evolution

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      Emelie Jonsson is Assistant Professor of English literature at the Arctic University of Norway, UiT, and Associate Editor of Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture. Her research centers on the friction between human psychology and naturalistic cosmology. 
      Darwinian evolution is an imaginative problem that has been passed down to us unsolved. It is our most powerful explanation of humanity’s place in nature, but it is also more cognitively demanding and less emotionally satisfying than any myth. From the publication of the Origin of Species in 1859, evolution has pushed our capacity for storytelling into overdrive, sparking fairy tales, adventure stories, political allegories, utopias, dystopias, social realist novels, and existential meditations. Though this influence on literature has been widely studied, it has not been explained psychologically. This book argues for the adaptive function of storytelling, integrates traditional humanist scholarship with current knowledge about the evolved and adapted human mind, and calls for literary scholars to reframe their interpretation of the first authors who responded to Darwin.
      Format: Paperback / softback CONTRIBUTORS: Emelie Jonsson EAN: 9783030827403 COUNTRY: Switzerland PAGES: WEIGHT: 410 g HEIGHT: 210 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Springer Nature Switzerland AG DATE PUBLISHED: 2022-10-01 CITY: GENRE: LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Evolution, SCIENCE / History WIDTH: 148 cm SPINE:

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      Literary theory, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Cognition and cognitive psychology, History of science, Evolution

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      Emelie Jonsson is Assistant Professor of English literature at the Arctic University of Norway, UiT, and Associate Editor of Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture. Her research centers on the friction between human psychology and naturalistic cosmology. 

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