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Les origines de l'homme d'après les anciens
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ISBN: 9782910897567 2910897567 Year: 1998 Publisher: Nice: Association des publications de la Faculté des lettres de Nice,

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The Early evolutionary imagination : literature and human nature
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ISBN: 3030827380 3030827372 Year: 2021 Publisher: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan,

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Affen wie wir : Was die Literatur über uns und unsere nächsten Verwandten erzählt
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ISBN: 9783476045980 Year: 2018 Publisher: Struttgart [Germany] : J.B. Metzler Verlag,

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Die biologische Vorgeschichte des Menschen : zu einem Schnittpunkt von Erzählordnung und Wissensformation
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ISBN: 9783793096986 Year: 2012 Publisher: Freiburg i.Br. : Rombach Verlag,

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Die Evolution im Spiegel der deutschen Literatur und Dichtung von der Aufklärung bis zur Romantik
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ISBN: 3782911229 Year: 1992 Publisher: Frankfurt am Main Kramer

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Useful fictions
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ISBN: 1283050811 9786613050816 0803232977 9780803232976 9781283050814 9780803230262 0803230265 6613050814 Year: 2010 Publisher: Lincoln University of Nebraska Press

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"We tell ourselves stories in order to live," Joan Didion observed in The White Album. Why is this? Michael Austin asks, in Useful Fictions. Why, in particular, are human beings, whose very survival depends on obtaining true information, so drawn to fictional narratives? After all, virtually every human culture reveres some form of storytelling. Might there be an evolutionary reason behind our species' need for stories?


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Evolution, literature, and film : a reader
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ISBN: 9780231150187 Year: 2010 Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press,

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Cosmic optimism : a study of the interpretation of evolution by American poets from Emerson to Robinson.
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ISBN: 0374919097 Year: 1973 Publisher: New York : Octagon Books,


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The art and science of making the new man in early 20th-century Russia
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ISBN: 9781350232839 Year: 2021 Publisher: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic,

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"The idea that morally, mentally, and physically superior 'new men' might replace the currently existing mankind has periodically seized the imagination of intellectuals, leaders, and reformers throughout history. This volume offers a multidisciplinary investigation into how the 'new man' was made in Russia and the early Soviet Union in the first third of the 20th century. The traditional narrative of the Soviet 'new man' as a creature forged by propaganda is challenged by the strikingly new and varied case studies presented here. The book focuses on the interplay between the rapidly developing experimental life sciences, such as biology, medicine, and psychology, and countless cultural products, ranging from film and fiction, dolls and museum exhibits to pedagogical projects, sculptures, and exemplary agricultural fairs. With contributions from scholars based in the United States, Canada, the UK, Germany and Russia, the picture that emerges is emphatically more complex, contradictory, and suggestive of strong parallels with other 'new man' visions in Europe and elsewhere. In contrast to previous interpretations that focused largely on the apparent disconnect between utopian 'new man' rhetoric and the harsh realities of everyday life in the Soviet Union, this volume brings to light the surprising historical trajectories of 'new man' visions, their often obscure origins, acclaimed and forgotten champions, unexpected and complicated results, and mutual interrelations. In short, the volume is a timely examination of a recurring theme in modern history, when dramatic advancements in science and technology conjoin with anxieties about the future to fuel dreams of a new and improved mankind"--


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Galdos and Darwin
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ISBN: 1282080350 9786612080357 1846154685 Year: 2006 Publisher: Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ; Rochester, NY : Tamesis,

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Darwinian theory - the big idea of the nineteenth century - and its impact on the writing of Benito P©♭rez Gald©đs. Despite the fact that Darwinian theory was perhaps the big idea of the nineteenth century, most critics in the past have assumed that Benito P©♭rez Gald©đs would have remained unaffected by this scientific and philosophical revolution. This work contends otherwise, charting the influence of evolutionary theories on Gald©đs throughout his literary career. From his adaptation of the early nineteenth-century costumbristas' depiction of social species into a more sophisticated portrayal of Madrid society to his treatment of shifting social forces at a time of major socio-economic change, Gald©đs's outlook is shown to be deeply enmeshed in the Darwinian debate. Attention is paid not only to the hypotheses of Darwin himself, but also for instance to Ernst Haeckel's evolutionary thought, to Herbert Spencer's social Darwinism, and to the radical histology of Santiago Ram©đn y Cajal. Gald©đs and Darwin discusses how Spain's greatest novelist since Cervantes imaginatively reworked these epoch-making theories and investigates the impact of science on culture as the Spanish nation approached the twentieth century. T. E. BELL completed his Ph.D. under the supervision of Professor Nicholas Round at Sheffield University.

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