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BIO-CRITICISM (LITERARY DARWINISM)

ASSOCIATIONS

• Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA)

CONFERENCES

2009:

• Decodings, 23rd Annual Conference, Society for Literature, Science and the Arts, Atlanta, November 5-8

2008:

2007:

2006:

• Close Encounters, Fourth European Biannual Conference, Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam,

2005:

2004:

• 18th Annual Conference, Society for Literature and Science, Durham, North Carolina, October 14-17

2003:

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2000:

Annual:

COURSES

• Bryn Mawr College: The Story of Evolution and the Evolution of Stories (Dalke and Grobstein)

JOURNALS

PERSONS

• Joseph Carroll ( - )

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • Boyd, Brian, Joseph Carroll, and Jonathan Gottschall, eds.  Evolutionary Studies in Literature and Film: a Reader in Art and Science.  New York: Columbia UP, 2009.

  • Cooke, Brett, and Frederick Turner, eds.  Biopoetics: Evolutionary Explorations in the Arts.  ICUS, 1999.

  • Gottschall, Jonathan, and David Sloan Wilson, eds.  The Literary Animal: Evolution and the Nature of Narrative.  Evanston, IL: Northwestern UP, 2005.

  • Martindale, Colin, et al., eds.  Evolutionary and Neurocognitive Approaches to Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts.  New York: , 2007.

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Argyros, Alexander J.  A Blessed Rage for Order: Deconstruction, Evolution, and Chaos.  1991.

  • Barash, David P., and Nanelle R. Barash.  Madame Bovary’s Ovaries: a Darwinian Look at Literature.  New York: Delacourt, 2005.
  • Beer, Gillian.  Darwin's Plots: Evolutionary Narrative in Darwin, George Eliot and Nineteenth-Century Fiction.  London: Methuen, 1983.
  • Boyd, Brian.  On the Origin of Stories: Evolution, Cognition and Fiction.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard UP, 2009.

  • Dissanayake, Ellen.   Art and Intimacy: How the Arts Began.  Seattle: U of Washington P, 2000.

  • Dissanayake, Ellen.   Homo Aestheticus: Where Art Comes From and Why.  New York: Free Press, 1992.

  • Dissanayake, Ellen.   What Is Art For?.  Seattle: U of Washington P, 1988.

  • Dutton, Dennis.  The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure and Human Evolution.  London: Bloomsbury, 2008.

  • Gottschall, Jonathan.  Literature, Science, and a New Humanities.  London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

  • Gottschall, Jonathan.  The Rape of Troy: Evolution, Violence, and the World of Homer.  Cambridge: CUP, 2007.

  • Nordlund, Marcus.  Shakespeare and the Nature of Love: Literature, Culture, Evolution.  Evanston, IL: Northwestern UP, 2007.

  • Storey, Bob.  Mimesis and the Human Animal: on the Biogenetic Foundations of Literary Representation.  Evanston, IL: Northwestern UP, 2006.

  • Turner, Frederick.  The Culture of Hope.  1995.

  • Turner, Frederick.  Natural Classicism.  1982.

On-Line:

• Archives:
• Selected Individual Works:

  • Gotschall, Jonathan:

    • Hidden Histories Boston Globe September 28, 2008

    • Measure for Measure Boston Globe May 11, 2008

    • Fictional Selection New Scientist March 3, 2007

SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

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• Selected Individual Works:

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On-Line:

• Angier, Natalie: New Curriculum Designed to Unite Art and Science New York Times May 27, 2008

• Boyd, Brian: Getting It All Wrong: Bioculture Critiques Cultural Critique The American Scholar (2006)

• Crain, Caleb: The Artistic Animal Lingua Franca 2001

• Czarnecki, Mark: The Other Darwin The Walrus August 17, 2008

• Deresiewicz, William: Adaptation: On Literary Darwinism Nation May 20, 2009

• Fromm, Harold:

  • Reading with Selection in Mind Science February 3, 2006

  • The New Darwinism in the Humanities I: from Plato to Pinker Hudson Review 56.1 (2003)

  • The New Darwinism in the Humanities II: Back to Nature Again Hudson Review 56.1 (2003)

• Gillespie, Nick:

  • Mr. Darcy Meets Mr. Darwin; There Are No Survivors Reason November 9, 2005

  • Darwin and Dickens: a New Breed of Critics is Using Evolution to Explain Literature Reason November, 1998

• Hsu, Jeremy: Why Dead Authors Can Thrill Modern Readers Live Science April 15, 2009

• Max, D. T.: The Literary Darwinists New York Times November 6, 2005

• Peterson, Britt: Darwin to the Rescue Chronicle of Higher Education August 1, 2008

• Shea, Christopher: Survivalist Lit. Boston Globe November 6, 2005

• Whitfield, John: Textual Selection Nature 439.26 (2006)

• Wikipedia Encyclopedia: Darwinian Literary Studies

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