A brief overview of literary Darwinism and a Darwinian perspective on The Road by Cormac McCarthy

Title variants

PL

Ogląd literaturoznawczego darwinizmu i darwinowskiego spojrzenia na powieść Droga - Cormaca McCarthy'ego

Abstracts

EN

The first section of this paper presents in general terms the main ideas of literary Darwinism represented by Joseph Carroll, Jonathan Gottschall and other scholars concerning theory (literature as an adaptation) and interpretative practice. It also reviews the key arguments of this literary school's critics focusing on the papers of Jonathan Kramnick and William Deresiewicz. The second section is an attempt at applying Darwinian methodology to the interpretation of The Road by Cormac McCarthy taking into account its reception, style, the behavioural systems (survival, parenting, and cognitive activity), the literary context and the author's point of view.

Keywords

EN

literary Darwinism; Cormac McCarthy; The Road; Joseph Carroll

PL

darwinizm literaturoznawczy; Cormac McCarthy; Droga; Joseph Carroll

• Publisher: Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Zawodowa w Chełmie
• Journal: Language. Culture. Politics. International Journal
• Year: 2021
• Volume: 1
• Pages: 137-152

Dates

published

2021

Contributors

other

Malina Załużna-Łuczkiewicz

• Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Zawodowa w Chełmie: Instytut Neofilologii

• https://orcid.org/0000000201814482

Identifiers

DOI

10.54515/lcp.2021.1.137-152

Biblioteka Nauki

1854108