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Human beings --- Human evolution --- Evolution in literature
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Evolution in literature. --- Literature, Modern --- History and criticism.
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Apes in literature. --- Apes in literature. --- Evolution in literature. --- Evolution in literature. --- Human beings in literature. --- Human beings in literature. --- LITERARY CRITICISM --- Subjects & Themes --- Nature.
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Human evolution --- Evolution (Biology) --- Human beings in literature --- Human evolution in literature
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Evolution in literature --- German literature --- German literature --- History and criticism --- History and criticism
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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?
Literature --- Evolution in literature. --- Fiction --- Literature and philosophy --- Philosophy and literature --- Philosophy. --- Appreciation. --- Psychological aspects. --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc. --- Theory --- Psychological study of literature
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Evolution in literature. --- Evolution in motion pictures. --- Literature and science. --- Literature --- Motion pictures --- Motion pictures --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc. --- History. --- Philosophy. --- Darwin, Charles, --- Influence.
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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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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.
Evolution in literature. --- Pérez Galdós, Benito, --- Darwin, Charles, --- Philosophy. --- Influence. --- Darwin, Charles, Robert --- Galdós, Benito Pérez, --- Péres Galdós, Benito, --- Pérez Galdós, B. --- Perez Galdos, Benito,
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