TY - BOOK AU - Van Oort,Richard TI - The end of literature: essays in anthropological aesthetics SN - 9781934542057 (alk. paper) U1 - 820.9 22 PY - 2009/// CY - Aurora, Colo. PB - The Davies Group, Publishers KW - English literature KW - History and criticism KW - Theory, etc KW - Literature KW - Literature and anthropology KW - Literature and science KW - Anthropology KW - Philosophy KW - Anthropology in literature KW - Science in literature N1 - 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 ER -