HISTORY OF LITERATURE EMBRACED BY DARWIN

• Authors: DARIUSZ SKÓRCZEWSKI
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The paper adumbrates Joseph Carroll’s evolutionist literary theory positioning it against the developments in literary studies and humanities after postmodernism. The author discusses the ambivalence present in Carroll’s neo-darwinian project, its possible power to revert the decline of literary studies through a return to tangibility and certainty after the dominance of postmodern speculative theories, but also its reductionist and anti-axiological- stance being a peril to the advancement of literary studies. The paper invites further discussion on the prospects of trans-disciplinary alliance between humanities and biological sciences in relation to the aesthetic specificity of literature.

Keywords

EN

HISTORY OF LITERATATURE; DARWIN; EVOLUTIONSIT LITERATARY THERORY

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Kardynała Stefana Wyszyńskiego w Warszawie
• Journal: Colloquia Litteraria
• Year: 2018
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 21-41

Dates

published

2018-05-03

Contributors

author

DARIUSZ SKÓRCZEWSKI

Identifiers

DOI

10.21697/cl.2017.3.3