A Biocultural Approach to Literary Theory and Interpretation

by Nancy Easterlin

Combining cognitive and evolutionary research with traditional humanist methods, Nancy Easterlin demonstrates how a biocultural perspective in theory and criticism opens up new possibilities for literary interpretation.

Easterlin maintains that the practice of literary interpretation is still of central intellectual and social value. Taking an open yet judicious approach, she argues, however, that literary interpretation stands to gain dramatically...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421404729
• ISBN13: 9781421404721
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.1"