The end of literature : essays in anthropological aesthetics /
Richard van Oort.
- Aurora, Colo. : The Davies Group, Publishers, c2009.
- xvi, 231 p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 211-223) and index.
Introduction -- Part I. The science of human origin: Cognitive science and the problem of representation; Imitation and human ontogeny: Michael Tomasello and the scene of joint attention -- Part II: The end of literature: The critic as ethnographer; The culture of criticism -- Part III. Two originary analyses: Shakespeare and the idea of the modern; A race of devils: Frankenstein, romanticism, and the tragedy of human origin.
9781934542057 (alk. paper)
English literature Literature Literature and anthropology Literature and science Anthropology Literature Anthropology in literature Science in literature