Biopoetics: Evolutionary Explorations in the Arts

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Author: Brett Cook

ISBN-10: 0892262052

ISBN-13: 9780892262052

Category: General & Miscellaneous Art

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AcknowledgmentsBiopoetics: The New Synthesis3"Making Special" - An Undescribed Human Universal and the Core of a Behavior of Art27The Descent of Fantasy47Preliminary Remarks on Literary Memetics59On Art71Edward O. Wilson on Art97An Ecopoetics of Beauty and Meaning119"Theory," Anti-Theory, and Empirical Criticism139Biochemicals and Brains: Natural Selection for Manipulators of Sexual Ecstacy and Fantasy157Sexual Property in Pushkin's "The Snowstorm": A Darwinist Perspective175Gethenian Nature, Human Nature, and the Nature of Reproduction: A Fantastic Flight through Ethnographic Hyperspace205The Dance with Darkness: The Limits of Human Interest in Science Fiction219Do Cognitive Predispositions Predict or Determine Literary Value Judgments? Narrativity, Plot, and Aesthetics241Art: The Replicable Unit263Imagination and Survival: The Case of Fantastic Literature293The "Novel" Novel: A Sociobiological Analysis of the Novelty Drive As Expressed in Science Fiction315Tragedy and Chaos335The Prehistory of Theatre: A Path with Six Turnings347Antecedents of Musical Meaning in the Mother-Infant Dyad367In Search of Texture399Literature of Early "Scientific" and "Evolution" Aesthetics417Selectionist Studies of the Arts: An Annotated Bibliography433Author's Page465