Toward a Sociobiological Hermeneutic: Darwinian Essays on Literature

by Michael Wainwright

Book Overview

This book draws on post-Darwinian advances in scientific disciplines to reanalyze canonical works of literature. This wide-ranging analysis includes studies of the works of Oscar Wilde, Sophocles, Shakespeare, Giovanni Boccaccio, Theodore Dreiser, John Roderigo Dos Passos, and William Faulkner.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349351741
• ISBN13: 9781349351749
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"