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Philosophy --- Philosophy of nature --- Thematology --- History of civilization --- Joyce, James
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Die Untersuchung möglicher evolutionärer Ursprünge menschlichen Verhaltens und dabei auch der Kunst und Literatur hat sich in den letzten Jahren zu einem fruchtbaren, aber auch umstittenen Arbeitsfeld entwickelt. Galt noch vor wenigen Jahren das Paradigma, dass ausschließlich Kultur die menschliche Lebenswirklichkeit bestimmt, so werden inzwischen alternative Modelle diskutiert, nach denen auch evolutionär erworbene Faktoren eine wesentliche Rolle spielen können. Daraus ergeben sich spannende Fragestellungen für die Untersuchung der Funktionalität des Erzählens in der frühmenschlichen Umwelt, der Entwicklung narrativer Strukturen sowie auch der Rolle bei der Produktion und Rezeption fiktionaler Texte. Die in diesem Band versammelten Aufsätze diskutieren diese Fragen aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven und geben damit einen umfassenden Überblick über den aktuellen Forschungsstand in diesem wesentlichen interdisziplinären Forschungsgebiet.
Storytelling. --- Literature and science. --- Human evolution in literature. --- Evolution (Biology) in literature. --- Storytelling --- Literature and science --- Anthropology --- Social Sciences --- Folklore --- Story-telling --- Telling of stories --- Poetry and science --- Science and literature --- Science and poetry --- Oral interpretation --- Children's stories --- Oral interpretation of fiction --- Science and the humanities --- Performance --- Adaptation. --- Darwinism. --- Evolution and Literature. --- Narration.
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The contributors to this volume share the assumption that popular narrative, when viewed with an evolutionary lens, offers us an incisive index into human nature. In theory, narrative art could take a near infinity of possible forms, but in actual practice particular motifs, plot patterns, stereotypical figures, and artistic devices persistently resurface, indicating specific predilections frequently at odds with actual living conditions. The papers explore various media and genres to gauge the impact of our evolutionary inheritance, in interdependence with the respective cultural environments, on our aesthetic appreciation. They also suggest that research into mass culture is indispensable for evolutionary criticism and that it may contribute to discussions of the prehistoric conditions that still influence modern preferences in popular narrative. Contributions by David Andrews, James Carney, Mathias Clasen, Brett Cooke, Tom Dolack, Kathryn Duncan, Isabel Behncke Izquierdo, Joe Keener, Alex C. Parrish, Todd K. Platts, Anna Rotkirch, Judith P. Saunders, Michelle Scalise Sugiyama, Dirk Vanderbeke, and Sophia Wege.
Pragmatics --- Sociolinguistics --- Storytelling in mass media. --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Human behavior. --- Social sciences --- Behavioral sciences --- Human sciences --- Sciences, Social --- Social science --- Social studies --- Civilization --- E-books --- Social sciences.
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Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, this volume explores representations of skin in literature, art, art history, visual media, and medicine and its history. The essays collected here probe the symbolic potential of skin as a shifting sign in various historical and cultural contexts, and also examine the material and organic properties of the body's largest organ. They deal with skin as a sensual organ, as an interface or contact zone, as the visual marker of identity, and as a lieu de memoire in different periods and media. In its material characteristics, skin is regarded as a medium, a
Human body in literature --- Body, Human, in literature --- Human figure in literature --- History. --- Research.
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Whether one describes them as sequential art, graphic narratives or graphic novels, comics have become a vital part of contemporary culture. Their range of expression contains a tremendous variety of forms, genres and modes − from high to low, from serial entertainment for children to complex works of art. This has led to a growing interest in comics as a field of scholarly analysis, as comics studies has established itself as a major branch of criticism. This handbook combines a systematic survey of theories and concepts developed in the field alongside an overview of the most important contexts and themes and a wealth of close readings of seminal works and authors. It will prove to be an indispensable handbook for a large readership, ranging from researchers and instructors to students and anyone else with a general interest in this fascinating medium.
Graphic arts --- Thematology --- Literary semiotics --- Comic books, strips, etc --- Comic strips --- Comics --- Funnies --- Manga (Comic books, strips, etc.) --- Manhua (Comic books, strips, etc.) --- Manhwa (Comic books, strips, etc.) --- Serial picture books --- Caricatures and cartoons --- Wit and humor, Pictorial --- Manhua (Comic books) --- Manhwa (Comic books)
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Physics and Literature is a unique collaboration between physicists, literary scholars, and philosophers, the first collection of essays to examine together how science and literature, beneath their practical differences, share core dimensions - forms of questioning, thinking, discovering and communicating insights.This book advances an in-depth exploration of relations between physics and literature from both perspectives. It turns around the tendency to discuss relations between literature and science in one-sided and polarizing ways. The collection is the result of the inaugural conference of ELINAS, the Erlangen Center for Literature and Natural Science, an initiative dedicated to building bridges between literary and scientific research. ELINAS revitalizes discussion of science-literature interconnections with new topics, ideas and angles, by organizing genuine dialogue among participants across disciplinary lines.The essays explore how scientific thought and practices are conditioned by narrative and genre, fiction, models and metaphors, and how science in turn feeds into the meaning-making of literary and philosophical texts. These interdisciplinary encounters enrich reflections on epistemology, cognition and aesthetics.
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