Evolution, literature, and film a reader - Boyd, Brian 1952-.; Carroll, Joseph 1949-.; Gottschall, Jonathan (New York Columbia University Press, 2010)
Part I. Evolution and human nature: Evolutionary psychology: the new science of the mind (2008) / David M. Buss -- Recapitulation and conclusion, from On the origin of species (1859) / Charles Darwin -- The digital river (1995) / Richard Dawkins -- General summary and conclusion, from The descent of man (1871) / Charles Darwin -- Man: from sociobiology to sociology (1975) / Edward O. Wilson -- The universal people (1991) / Donald E. Brown -- Sociobiology at century?s end (2000) / Edward O. Wilson -- Evolution and explanation (2005) / Steven Pinker -- Evolutionary social constructivism (2005) / David Sloan Wilson -- Part II. The riddle of art: Art and adaptation (1997) / Steven Pinker -- The arts and their interpretation (1998) / Edward O. Wilson -- Art and intimacy: how the arts began (2000) / Ellen Dissanayake -- Arts of seduction (2000) / Geoffrey Miller -- Does beauty build adapted minds? toward an evolutionary theory of aesthetics, fiction, and the arts (2001) / John Tooby and Leda Cosmides -- The uses of fiction (2009) / Denis Dutton -- Part III. Literature, film, and evolution: theory: Getting it all wrong: bioculture critiques cultural critique (2006) / Brian Boyd -- Imagining human nature / Joseph Carroll ... [et al.] -- Two worlds: the ghost and the machine (2008) / Edward Slingerland -- Consilient literary interpretation (2002) / Marcus Nordlund -- Humanism and human nature in the renaissance (2005) / Robin Headlam Wells -- The reality of illusion (1996) / Joseph Anderson -- Darwin and the directors: film, emotion, and the face in the age of evolution (2003) / Murray Smith -- What snakes, eagles, and rhesus macaques can teach us (2008) / David Bordwell -- Part IV. Interpretations: Homeric women: re-imagining the fitness landscape (2008) / Jonathan Gottschall -- New science, old myth: an evolutionary critique of the oedipal paradigm (2001) / Michelle Scalise Sugiyama -- The wheel of fire and the mating game: explaining the origins of tragedy and comedy (2005) / Daniel Nettle -- Jealousy in Othello (2007) / Marcus Nordlund -- Wordsworth, psychoanalysis, and the "discipline of love" (2000) / Nancy Easterlin -- Vindication and vindictiveness: Oliver Twist (2007) / William Flesch -- The cuckoo?s history: human nature in Wuthering Heights (2008) / Joseph Carroll -- Human nature, utopia, and dystopia: Zamyatin?s We (2002) / Brett Cooke -- Paternal confidence in Zora Neale Hurston?s "The gilded six-bits" / Judith P. Saunders -- Character in Citizen Kane (1996) / Joseph Anderson -- Convention, construction, and cinematic vision (1996/2008) / David Bordwell -- Art and evolution: the avant-garde as test case: Spiegelman in The narrative corpse (2008) / Brian Boyd -- Part V. Literature as laboratory: Literature, science, and a new humanities (2008) / Jonathan Gottschall -- Slash fiction and human mating psychology (2004) / Catherine Salmon and Donald Symons -- Cultural variation is part of human nature: literary universals, context-sensitivity, and "Shakespeare in the bush" (2003) / Michelle Scalise Sugiyama -- Paleolithic politics in British novels of the longer nineteenth century / Joseph Carroll ... [et al.].
Keywords: Darwin, Charles -- 1809-1882 -- Influence; Literature and science; Evolution in literature; Evolution in motion pictures; Literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc; Motion pictures -- History; Motion pictures -- Philosophy