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Title Evolution and popular narrative / edited by Dirk Vanderbeke and Brett Cooke
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 303 pages)
Series Critical studies ; volume 38
Critical studies (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ; v. 38.
Contents Front Matter -- Copyright -- Introduction / Brett Cooke and Dirk Vanderbeke -- Evolution and Slasher Films / Mathias Clasen and Todd K. Platts -- Remaking, or Not, the Classics / David Andrews -- Imagining the End of the World / Mathias Clasen -- On Love and Marriage in Popular Genres / Dirk Vanderbeke -- Social Network Complexity in Mozart's Marriage of Figaro / Tamás Dávid-Barrett , James Carney , Anna Rotkirch and Isabel Behncke Izquierdo -- Banal Classicism and Borrowed Ethos in the Rhetorics of Human and Nonhuman Animals / Alex C. Parrish -- The Reader is Always Right / Sophia Wege -- Why We Read Detective Fiction / Judith P. Saunders -- Handel, Senesino, and Giulio Cesare, or the Irreversible Decline of Opera Seria / Brett Cooke -- We've Evolved into the Gutters / Joe Keener -- Theory of Mind and Mind Eating / Kathryn Duncan -- The Relevance of Popularity / Michelle Scalise Sugiyama -- A Quantitative Approach to Counterintuitive Imagery in the Hebrew Bible and the Harry Potter Novels / Tom Dolack -- Back Matter -- Index
Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 25, 2019)
Subject Storytelling in mass media.
Narration (Rhetoric)
Human behavior.
human behavior.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General
TRAVEL / Special Interest / Literary
Human behavior
Narration (Rhetoric)
Storytelling in mass media
Form Electronic book
Author Vanderbeke, Dirk, 1958- editor.
Cooke, Brett, editor
LC no. 2019980479
ISBN 9789004391161
9004391169