biopoet : Messages : 752-781 of 809

Hi folks,

Pete Swirski has a new book that takes an evolutionary stance toward a subject in contemporary American literature and politics. He asked me to pass along the poster. The blurbs give a good sense of the interest and appeal of this book.

Joseph Carroll

Curators' Professor

English Department

University of Missouri, St. Louis

St. Louis, MO 63121

home phone 314 432 5583

http://www.sunypress.edu/p-5132-reading-human-nature.aspx

Home Address:

9038 Old Bonhomme Road

St. Louis, MO 63132

1 of 1 File(s)

Poster American Utopia and Social Engineering.pdf

#753

From: "Carroll, Joseph C." <jcarroll@...>
Date: Fri May 6, 2011 2:20 pm
Subject: Science article on evolutionary study in the humanities

clelburn1949

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/332/6030/654

Joseph Carroll

1 of 1 File(s)

Science-2011-Kean-654-6.pdf

#754

From: William Benzon <bbenzon@...>
Date: Mon May 30, 2011 4:21 pm
Subject: NEW SAVANNA: Implicit Analysis in Two Texts, a Cartoon and a Romance

bbenzon

Here’s some thoughts about a particular mode of narrative thinking, with two examples, a cartoon and a medieval romance. I figure it’s up to the computationalists to figure out how this works and up to humanists to provide good analytic and descriptive work on particular examples.

http://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2011/05/implicit-analysis-in-two-texts-cartoon.html

best,

Bill B

--

William L. Benzon
222 Van Horne St. 3R
Jersey City, NJ 07304
201 217-1010

"You won't get a wild heroic ride to heaven on pretty little sounds."--George Ives

New Savanna (blog): http://new-savanna.blogspot.com/
Mind-Culture Coevolution: http://asweknowit.ca/evcult/
The Valve (cultural blog): http://tinyurl.com/ormqg
Flickr: http://flickr.com/photos/stc4blues/
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/STC4blues

http://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2011/05/implicit-analysis-in-two-texts-cartoon.html

#755

From: William Benzon <bbenzon@...>
Date: Fri Jun 17, 2011 3:08 pm
Subject: Is Evolutionary Biology Infected With Invalid Teleological Reasoning?

bbenzon

This is an essay-review by David J. Depew. Here’s the abstract:

In Not By Design: Retiring Darwin’s Watchmaker (2009), John Reiss claims that thinking of organisms as analogous to artifacts, and so thinking of natural selection as naturalized design, is not the only point at which invalid and unsound teleological reasoning has affected evolutionary biology. Teleological errors persist whenever evolutionary biologists turn the observation that an organism would not exist unless it possessed a certain trait into the claim that the trait in question came into existence because it had this salutary effect. Since he thinks fitness itself is often measured in ways that commit this fallacy, Reiss infers that the only good measure of fitness is the continued existence of populations or species, a principle he traces back to the anti-evolutionary 18th century comparative anatomist George Cuvier. In this essay, I explicate Reiss’s reasons for coming to this conclusion and offer challenges on several points. Among these is Reiss’s perhaps too hasty dismissal of the consequence etiological or selected-effects account of adaptedness. I conclude by suggesting that Reiss’s work exemplifies one way in which evolutionary developmental biology (Evo-devo) is currently affecting the consensus form of genetic Darwinism that has prevailed for many decades under the name of the Modern Synthesis.

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=ptb;idno=6959004.0002.005;cc=ptb;rgn=main;view=text

Bill B
--

William L. Benzon, Ph. D.
222 Van Horne St. 3R
Jersey City, NJ 07304
201 217-1010

New Savanna (blog): http://new-savanna.blogspot.com/
Mind-Culture Coevolution: http://asweknowit.ca/evcult/
The Valve (cultural blog): http://tinyurl.com/ormqg
Flickr: http://flickr.com/photos/stc4blues/
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/STC4blues

#756

From: William Benzon <bbenzon@...>
Date: Sat Jun 25, 2011 7:49 pm
Subject: NEW SAVANNA: Literature and Emotion

bbenzon

A correspondent recently brought up the topic of emotional response to
literature. It�s an important topic, one I�ve thought about from time to
time, but I don�t have any particular insight into it. Still, I�ve put
together a few thoughts.

First, an excerpt my review of William Flesch, Comeupance (Harvard UP 2007).
Flesch introduces the notion of vicarious experience, which is the most
interesting idea on emotion in literature that I�ve read since Susanne
Langer�s more general idea of virtual experience. Then I consider a
childhood practice by way of looking at a section from Tom Sawyer, where Tom
deals with negative feelings by running away to become a pirate. Finally, I
have abstracts about and links to two old posts at The Valve.

Bill Benzon


http://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2011/06/literature-and-emotion.html

#757

From: jerry hoeg <jhoeg1@...>
Date: Tue Jun 28, 2011 10:45 am
Subject: Call for Papers Madrid 2012 Lit/Sci conference

jhoeg1

Dear colleagues,

I'm writing to request that the CFP below be forwarded to your readers.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.

Kind regards,

Jerry Hoeg

1 of 1 File(s)

Madridcallnew1.doc

#758

From: William Benzon <bbenzon@...>
Date: Sun Aug 7, 2011 4:09 pm
Subject: Toward a Heart of Darkness Handbook�handbook as description of a sharable promptuary

bbenzon

Dear Literary critics, cultural studies, and other humanists,

For some time now I’ve been thinking that we need to compile “handbook level” information about the texts (broadly construed) that most interest us. By this I mean consensus-level and largely descriptive information about texts. In particular, I think that what we know goes far beyond the mere characters on the page.

To this end, I’ve taken my series of 11 posts on Conrad’s Heart of Darkness as a context in which to outline what such a handbook might contain. Most of the material in those 11 posts won’t make it, but some will and, of course, a lot that I didn’t cover in those posts. So, using Norm Holland’s phrase for what every reader finds in the text “sharable promptuary”, I’ve sketched out how we might begin describing that sharable promptuary in one case.

Best,

Bill Benzon

http://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2011/08/hd-postscript-toward-heart-of-darkness.html

#759

From: "Carroll, Joseph C." <jcarroll@...>
Date: Sat Aug 13, 2011 8:00 pm
Subject: a modest letter of submission, so to speak

jcarroll@...

Carroll gene-culture co-ev.pdf

Hi folks,

This might be of some general interest: a cover letter accompanying the copyedited ms. of a response to an article titled ��Against Literary Darwinism.�� The article to which this ms. offered a rebuttal is by Jonathan Kramnick and was published in Critical Inquiry, a flagship journal of academic literary theory, Marxist mostly. I think this cover letter might be of some general interest because it gives a bird��s eye view of the positions of various camps—opposing armies—dispersed across the current academic intellectual landscape.

Joe Carroll

From: Carroll, Joseph C.
Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2011 12:38 PM
To: 'James Williams'
Cc: Brian Boyd; Jon Gottschall
Subject: RE: ci ms.

Jay, I'm attaching one document that contains both the bioblurb and the abstract of "An Open Letter to Jonathan Kramnick.�� I��ll also paste them in below. I'm also attaching a photo, as you requested.

Thanks for taking care of all this. I'll look forward to receiving a copy of the issue of the journal in which the exchange appears.

You might be curious to see an article on literary Darwinism that recently appeared in Science. It��s both more sympathetic and better-informed than Kramnick��s piece. That��s pretty much to be expected. It��s a pattern. Nature and Science both have run previous pieces sympathetic to evolutionary studies in the humanities, and the sciences in general, along with the educated reading public, have been intelligently interested in what the literary Darwinists are up to. The academic establishment in the humanities, in contrast, has been unintelligently uninterested. The establishment is now becoming interested, but only, usually, in the way that Kramnick is interested. In his first paragraph, Kramnick describes the situation very clearly—one of the few unconfused if still misguided statements he makes in that article. He explains that while the academic establishment can get no traction at all with educated general readers (people who read, for example, the cultural and science sections in The New York Times), the literary Darwinists have been having quite a lot of success in that area. His conclusion, the part that seems misguided, is that people like the editors and readers of Critical Inquiry should stop ignoring the Darwinists and start attacking them. That��s progress, of a kind. You no doubt have heard the commonplace that all paradigm changes precede in three stages: (1) it can��t be true; (2) it might be true, but it��s trivial; and (3) it��s both true and important, but we knew it all along anyway.

In case you might be interested, I��ll also attach the essay review I recommended Kramnick read in order to be able to start to stop faking it when he talks about the development of evolutionary theory in the social sciences over the past forty years or so.

I��m copying this note to my co-editors in Evolution, Literature, and Film: A Reader (Brian Boyd and Jon Gottschall). I��m sure they��ll be interested.

Sorry I couldn��t produce a better photo. The problem is not in the camera, or the photographer.

Joe Carroll

Bioblurb for Joseph Carroll

Joseph Carroll is Curators�� Professor of English, University of Missouri, St. Louis. In addition to authoring monographs on Matthew Arnold and Wallace Stevens, he is author of Evolution and Literary Theory (1995), Literary Darwinism: Evolution, Human Nature, and Literature (2004), and Reading Human Nature: Literary Darwinism in Theory and Practice (2011). He produced an edition of Darwin��s Origin of Species (2003), co-edited the first two annual volumes of The Evolutionary Review: Art, Science, Culture (2010, 2011); and co-edited Evolution, Literature, and Film: A Reader (2010).

Abstract of ��An Open Letter to Jonathan Kramnick.��

Jonathan Kramnick makes a crucial, basic error in his account of ��literary Darwinism.�� He supposes that the word adaptive is synonymous with the word modular. That��s an entry-level confusion in biological theory, with which Kramnick clearly has only a superficial acquaintance. Kramnick projects his own inchoate and misguided conceptual framework onto the literary Darwinists and then points out that the framework he imputes to them makes little sense. I argue that if he wishes to contribute effectively to the theoretical discussions about integrating evolutionary theory and literary theory, he will need to acquaint himself with a great deal of research that has thus far remained outside his range of expertise. I give him bibliographic suggestions as to where he needs to start.

1 of 1 Photo(s)

Joseph Carroll.jpg

3 of 3 File(s)

Science-2011-Kean-654-6.pdf

Joseph Carroll -- bioblurb and abstract for reply to Kramnick.docx

#760

From: "Carroll, Joseph C." <jcarroll@...>
Date: Sun Aug 14, 2011 1:18 pm
Subject: RE: a modest letter of submission, so to speak

jcarroll@...

Cover note for bioblurb and abstract.docx

Hi again. One of my correspondents tells me that for some reason the message below came out in his email system as computer gibberish. Other correspondents seemed able to read it without difficulty. In case the message was unintelligible to more than one recipient, for whatever reason, I��m copying and pasting it into Word and from Word back into Outlook. If this is gibberish to any of the recipients, would you please let me know? Thanks.

As insurance, I��ll attach the pasted-in note as a whole document, the cover note with the bioblurb and abstract.

If you had no difficulty receiving this the first time, my apologies for the duplication.

Joe

Hi folks,

Joe Carroll

From: Carroll, Joseph C.
Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2011 12:38 PM
To: 'James Williams'
Cc: Brian Boyd; Jon Gottschall
Subject: RE: ci ms.

Thanks for taking care of all this. I'll look forward to receiving a copy of the issue of the journal in which the exchange appears.

I��m copying this note to my co-editors in Evolution, Literature, and Film: A Reader (Brian Boyd and Jon Gottschall). I��m sure they��ll be interested.

Sorry I couldn��t produce a better photo. The problem is not in the camera, or the photographer.

Joe Carroll

Bioblurb for Joseph Carroll

Abstract of ��An Open Letter to Jonathan Kramnick.��

1 of 1 Photo(s)

Joseph Carroll.jpg

3 of 3 File(s)

Carroll gene-culture co-ev.pdf

Science-2011-Kean-654-6.pdf

#761

From: "Carroll, Joseph C." <jcarroll@...>
Date: Sun Aug 14, 2011 4:21 pm
Subject: RE: a modest letter of submission, so to speak

jcarroll@...

I’ve had a few requests to send along Kramnick’s article, “Against Literary Darwinism.” It’s here: http://www.umsl.edu/~carrolljc/Documents%20linked%20to%20indiex/Kramnick/Kramnick%20Against%20Literary%20Darwinism.pdf

And here’s my response: http://www.umsl.edu/~carrolljc/Documents%20linked%20to%20indiex/Kramnick/An_Open_Letter_to_Jonathan_Kramnick.htm

Joe Carroll

#762

From: "Carroll, Joseph C." <jcarroll@...>
Date: Mon Aug 15, 2011 3:31 am
Subject: RE: a modest letter of submission, so to speak

jcarroll@...

Jay, I overlooked one item in your cover letter for the copyedited ms.

��If you would like us to create a link from your name as it appears in the biosketch to your email address, please supply us with that address.��

Here is that address: http://www.umsl.edu/~carrolljc/

Thanks,

Joe

From: Carroll, Joseph C.
Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2011 3:01 PM
To: 'Barbara Oakley'; Cook, Richard M.; Harold Fromm (hfromm@...); Ellen Dissanayake (edissana@...); Mathias Clasen; Pete Swirski (peter.swirski@...); Rose, David C.; Parker, Patricia G.; 'Bret A. Rappaport'; Chris Carroll (carroll.chris81@...); Carolyn Brown; Charles Duncan; David Bordwell (bordwell@...); darthur61@...; dmichel1@...; Emelie Jonsson (jonemchris@...); McManus, Ellen (emcmanus@...); Geoffrey Harpham; Glen Love (rglove@...); Jeff P. Turpin (jpturpin@...); jerry hoeg; jurekluty@...; John Johnson; John Knapp (jknapp@...); Judith Saunders; Maya Lessov; Mette Kramer (mettekramer@...); MICHAEL RYAN (mpryan@...); naomi stekelenburg (nastek1@...); Peter Kjaergaard (pck25@...); Robert Kurzban (rkurzban@...); Robin Headlam Wells; Horvathon@...; sj.davies@...; zatavu1@...; w.vandamme@...; 'schiefen@...'; ';��֨'; Yasbin, Ronald; George, Thomas F.; Katja Mellmann; Gordon M. Burghardt; Brett Cooke (brett-cooke@...); Clinton Machann; Thomson, James (jat4m) (jat4m@...); Andrew Higgins (higginsa@...); Michelle Scalise (michelle_scalise@...); Palmer, Craig T.; Kathryn Coe; biopoet@yahoogroups.com; Gary Comstock; gary.dunham@...; dwilson@...; Lauri Jang (laurij@...); Fotis Jannidis; David Miall; PRGHOME@...; Napoleon Chagnon (chag99@...); Wilson, Ami (UMSL-Student) (anwtg2@...); Wilmarth, Paul; 'Dan Kruger' (djk210@...); Flinn, Mark V.; Geary, David C.; w-irons@...; John Orbell (jorbell@...); Marcus Nordlund; Eileen A. Joy; koatley@...; 'ursula@...'; Helena Cronin (h.cronin@...); CAMPBELL A.C. (a.c.campbell@...); robertsi@...; Taylor, George T.; Cope, Glen; djtanaka1@...
Cc: Brian Boyd; Jon Gottschall
Subject: a modest letter of submission, so to speak

Hi folks,

Joe Carroll

From: Carroll, Joseph C.
Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2011 12:38 PM
To: 'James Williams'
Cc: Brian Boyd; Jon Gottschall
Subject: RE: ci ms.

Thanks for taking care of all this. I'll look forward to receiving a copy of the issue of the journal in which the exchange appears.

I��m copying this note to my co-editors in Evolution, Literature, and Film: A Reader (Brian Boyd and Jon Gottschall). I��m sure they��ll be interested.

Sorry I couldn��t produce a better photo. The problem is not in the camera, or the photographer.

Joe Carroll

Bioblurb for Joseph Carroll

Abstract of ��An Open Letter to Jonathan Kramnick.��

#763

From: "Carroll, Joseph C." <jcarroll@...>
Date: Mon Aug 15, 2011 3:33 am
Subject: RE: RE: a modest letter of submission, so to speak

jcarroll@...

Sorry folks, I hit the wrong button. Please ignore the message I accidentally sent you.

Joe

From: biopoet@yahoogroups.com [mailto:biopoet@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Carroll, Joseph C.
Sent: Sunday, August 14, 2011 10:32 PM
To: Barbara Oakley; Cook, Richard M.; hfromm@...; edissana@...; Mathias Clasen; peter.swirski@...; Rose, David C.; Parker, Patricia G.; Bret A. Rappaport; carroll.chris81@...; Brown, Carolyn; Charles Duncan; bordwell@...; darthur61@...; dmichel1@...; jonemchris@...; emcmanus@...; Geoffrey Harpham; rglove@...; jpturpin@...; jerry hoeg; jurekluty@...; John Johnson; jknapp@...; Judith Saunders; Maya Lessov; mettekramer@...; mpryan@...; nastek1@...; pck25@...; rkurzban@...; Robin Headlam Wells; Horvathon@...; sj.davies@...; zatavu1@...; w.vandamme@...; schiefen@...; ;��֨; Yasbin, Ronald; George, Thomas F.; Katja Mellmann; Gordon M. Burghardt; brett-cooke@...; Clinton Machann; jat4m@...; higginsa@...; michelle_scalise@...; Palmer, Craig T.; Kathryn Coe; biopoet@yahoogroups.com; Gary Comstock; gary.dunham@...; dwilson@...; laurij@...; Fotis Jannidis (fotis.jannidis@...); David Miall; PRGHOME@...; chag99@...; anwtg2@...; Wilmarth, Paul; djk210@...; Flinn, Mark V.; Geary, David C.; w-irons@...; jorbell@...; Marcus Nordlund; Eileen A. Joy; koatley@...; ursula@...; h.cronin@...; a.c.campbell@...; robertsi@...; Taylor, George T.; Cope, Glen; djtanaka1@...
Cc: Brian Boyd; Jon Gottschall
Subject: [biopoet] RE: a modest letter of submission, so to speak

Jay, I overlooked one item in your cover letter for the copyedited ms.

��If you would like us to create a link from your name as it appears in the biosketch to your email address, please supply us with that address.��

Here is that address : http://www.umsl.edu/~carrolljc/

Thanks,

Joe

From: Carroll, Joseph C.
Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2011 3:01 PM
To: 'Barbara Oakley'; Cook, Richard M.; Harold Fromm (hfromm@...); Ellen Dissanayake (edissana@...); Mathias Clasen; Pete Swirski (peter.swirski@...); Rose, David C.; Parker, Patricia G.; 'Bret A. Rappaport'; Chris Carroll (carroll.chris81@...); Carolyn Brown; Charles Duncan; David Bordwell (bordwell@...); darthur61@...; dmichel1@...; Emelie Jonsson (jonemchris@...); McManus, Ellen (emcmanus@...); Geoffrey Harpham; Glen Love (rglove@...); Jeff P. Turpin (jpturpin@...); jerry hoeg; jurekluty@...; John Johnson; John Knapp (jk napp@...); Judith Saunders; Maya Lessov; Mette Kramer (mettekramer@...); MICHAEL RYAN (mpryan@...); naomi stekelenburg (nastek1@...); Peter Kjaergaard (pck25@...); Robert Kurzban (rkurzban@...); Robin Headlam Wells; Horvathon@...; sj.davies@...; zatavu1@...; w.vandamme@...; 'schiefen@...'; ';��֨'; Yasbin, Ronald; George, Thomas F.; Katja Mellmann; Gordon M. Burghardt; Brett Cooke (brett-cooke@...); Clinton Machann; Thomson, James (jat4m) (jat4m@...); Andrew Higgins (higginsa@...); Michelle Scalise (michelle_scalise@...); Palmer, Craig T.; Kathryn Coe; biopoet@yahoogroups.com; Gary Comstock; gary.dunham@...; dwilson@...; Lauri Jang (laurij@...); Fotis Jannidis; David Miall; PRGHOME@...; Napoleon Chagnon (chag99@...); Wilson, Ami (UMSL-Stud ent) (anwtg2@...); Wilmarth, Paul; 'Dan Kruger' (djk210@...); Flinn, Mark V.; Geary, David C.; w-irons@...; John Orbell (jorbell@...); Marcus Nordlund; Eileen A. Joy; koatley@...; 'ursula@...'; Helena Cronin (h.cronin@...); CAMPBELL A.C. (a.c.campbell@...); robertsi@...; Taylor, George T.; Cope, Glen; djtanaka1@...
Cc: Brian Boyd; Jon Gottschall
Subject: a modest letter of submission, so to speak

Hi folks,

Joe Carroll

From: Carroll, Joseph C.
Sent: Saturday, August 13, 2011 12:38 PM
To: 'James Williams'
Cc: Brian Boyd; Jon Gottschall
Subject: RE: ci ms.

Thanks for taking care of all this. I'll look forward to receiving a cop y of the issue of the journal in which the exchange appears.

I��m copying this note to my co-editors in Evolution, Literature, and Film: A Reader (Brian Boyd and Jon Gottschall). I��m sure they��ll be interested.

Sorry I couldn��t produce a better photo. The problem is not in the camera, or the photographer.

Joe Carroll

;

Bioblurb for Joseph Carroll

Abstract of ��An Open Letter to Jonathan Kramnick.��

#764

From: William Benzon <bbenzon@...>
Date: Tue Aug 16, 2011 10:02 am
Subject: NEW SAVANNA: Working Paper on Heart of Darkness

bbenzon

I’ve now prepared a PDF of my recent work on Heart of Darkness:

Heart of Darkness is a novella that is roughly 38,000 words long and divided into three sections. In these notes I use a variety of qualitative and quantitative techniques to analyze and describe it. In particular, I argue that it exhibits center-point construction, a tale within a tale within a tale, and that the story’s moral center contrasts workplace values with basic human bonds.

This page introduces the various posts and has a link to the PDF:

http://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2011/08/working-paper-on-heart-of-darkness.html

Bill B
--

William L. Benzon, Ph. D.
222 Van Horne St. 3R
Jersey City, NJ 07304
201 217-1010

New Savanna (blog): http://new-savanna.blogspot.com/
Mind-Culture Coevolution: http://asweknowit.ca/evcult/
The Valve (cultural blog): http://tinyurl.com/ormqg
Flickr: http://flickr.com/photos/stc4blues/
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/STC4blues

#765

From: "Carroll, Joseph C." <jcarroll@...>
Date: Wed Aug 17, 2011 3:11 pm
Subject: FW: [Evolution and Literature] A Note on the Adaptive Function of Literature

jcarroll@...

From: Blogger [mailto:no-reply@...]
Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 9:49 AM
To: Carroll, Joseph C.
Subject: [Evolution and Literature] A Note on the Adaptive Function of Literature

I am reading The Art of Immersion by Frank Rose, which talks about some of the new ways stories are told with the internet and games. They talk about how much of the theory behind how the world wide web works -- using links - comes from Vannevar Bush's idea of the brain being associative and, thus, it would be better to organize information in such a way, using what became known as hyperlinks. It is suggested by Rose that stories can and should make use of the inherent nonlinearity behind this idea.

However, from an evolutionary perspective, there is another interesting point made:

Steven Pinker once described fiction as "a kind of thought experiment" in which characters "play out plausible interactions in a . . . virtual world, and an audience can take mental notes of the results." While perhaps not the most poetic assessment of literature ever penned, this view does seem to be borne out by recent experiments in neuroscience.

In a paper published in 2009, for example, four researchers at Washington University in St. Louis conducted functional MRI scans of 28 people as they were reading a series of stories. The narratives were all taken from One Boy's Day, a 1951 book about the life of a seven-year-old schoolkid named Raymond. The experiment demonstrated a close correlation between the actions described in a story and the parts of the brain that process those actions when a person actually performs them.

Functional magnetic resonance imaging works by showing blood flow within the brain. It can't show what a person is thinking, but it can show which parts of the brain are being activated. When Raymond picked up his workbook, blood flowed to the parts o the readers' brains that are associated with grasping motions. When he walked over to his teacher's desk, the frontal cortex and hippocampus lit up -- the areas of the brain that deal with location in space. When Raymond shook his head no, the part of the brain that deals with goal-directed activity was activated. This suggests, the authors wrote, "that readers understand a story by stimulating the events in the story world and updating their simulation when features of that world change. (141-142)

He then goes on to quote Will Wright, creator of Sim City and The Sims (the latter, after reading Maslow):

"You've only got a limited bubble of experience in your entire life, [...] and you're going to perform better if you can build from a larger set of experiences than you could have personally. As a caveman, you know, your fellow cavemen left the cave and a tiger almost ate him. So he comes back and tells you the story -- This tiger almost ate me! And the next time you leave the cave, you'll look around and make sure there's not a tiger there."

It is perhaps no surprise that this comes from the creator of The Sims. It is a shame that it is game creators rather than fiction writers (and theorists) who best understand the nature of fiction. It certainly points to what many of us have argued is the primary adaptive function of storytelling.

"a kind of thought experiment": Steven Pinker, "Toward a Consilient Description of Literature," Philosophy and Literature 31 (2007), 161-77

"that readers understand a story": Nicole K. Speer, Jeremy R. Reynolds, Khena M. Swallow, and Jeffrey M. Zacks, "Reading Stories Activates Neural Representations of Visual and Motor Experiences," Psychological Science 20, no. 8 (August 2009), 989-99

--
Posted By Blogger to Evolution and Literature at 8/17/2011 06:44:00 AM

#766

From: "Carroll, Joseph C." <jcarroll@...>
Date: Wed Aug 24, 2011 6:46 am
Subject: FW: Cognitive Cervantes

jcarroll@...

CFP_CognitiveCervantes.pdf

From: Simon, Julien J [mailto:jjsimon@...]
Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2011 12:52 AM
To: Carroll, Joseph C.
Subject: CFP: Cognitive Cervantes

Dear Prof. Carroll,

For the spring 2012 issue of Cervantes, Howard Mancing, Barbara Simerka and I are guest-editing a special cluster of essays which could be of interest to some of the members in your discussion group. Would you mind forwarding the CFP below to them? I’m also attaching a PDF version. Thank you in advance for your help.

Best regards,

Julien

Julien J. Simon, PhD

Assistant Professor of Spanish & French

World Languages & Cultures Program Coordinator

Indiana University East

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

“Cognitive Cervantes: Cervantes and Cognitive Literary Studies”

CFP for a cluster of essays for the Spring 2012 issue of Cervantes.

This cluster is guest-edited by Julien Simon, Barbara Simerka, and Howard Mancing.

Cognitive literary studies is an interdisciplinary endeavor that brings together humanistic and cognitive scientific knowledge and methodologies to explore the complex intersection of the mind/brain and literature. Recent anthologies/introductions to the field include among others:

- Gavins and Steen’s Cognitive Poetics in Practice (Routledge, 2003)

- Herman’s Narrative Theory of the Cognitive Sciences (CSLI, 2003)

- Richardson and Spolsky’s The Work of Fiction (Ashgate, 2004)

- Gottschall and Wilson’s The Literary Animal (Northwestern UP, 2005)

- McConachie and Hart’s Performance and Cognition (Routledge, 2006)

- Zyngier et al’s Directions in Empirical Literary Studies (John Benjamins, 2008)

- Br�ne and Vandaele’s Cognitive Poetics: Goals, Gains and Gaps (Gruyter, 2009)

- Aldama’s Toward a Cognitive Theory of Narrative Acts (U Texas P, 2010)

- Boyd et al’s Evolution, Literature, and Film: A Reader (Columbia UP, 2010)

- Zunshine’s Introduction to Cognitive Cultural Studies (Johns Hopkins UP, 2010)

- Leverage et al’s Theory of Mind and Literature (Purdue UP, 2011)

- Ja�n and Simon’s Cognitive Literary Studies (U Texas P, forthcoming 2012)

The Spring 2012 issue of Cervantes, the journal of the CSA (Cervantes Society of America), will present a special cluster of essays that incorporate cognitive approaches to the study of Cervantes’ texts. “Cognitive Cervantes” represents the first effort to bring together the work of scholars examining Hispanic literature and more specifically Cervantes’s writings in relation to human cognition.

Topics and approaches addressed may include, but are not limited to: cognitive poetics; cognitive historicism; cognitive narratology; evolutionary literary theory; conceptual blending; embodiment; theory of mind; schema theory, prototype theory; reader response issues such as narrative empathy, the paradox of fiction, and immersion.

Essays should engage with both Cervantes’s scholarship and cognitive literary studies, be between 7,000 and 8,000 words, can be written in English or Spanish, and must conform to MLA style (for more information, see Cervantes’s style guide: http://www.h-net.org/~cervantes/csa/styleguide.pdf).

Please send submissions to Julien Simon (jjsimon@...) by October 20^th, 2011.

Julien J. Simon, PhD

Assistant Professor of Spanish & French

World Languages & Cultures Program Coordinator

Indiana University East

1 of 1 File(s)

#767

From: "Carroll, Joseph C." <jcarroll@...>
Date: Wed Aug 24, 2011 8:42 am
Subject: FW: for your possible interest

jcarroll@...

From: Michelle Scalise [mailto:michelle_scalise@...]
Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2011 6:25 PM
To: Ellen Dissanayake; nancy easterlin; Brett Cooke; Carroll, Joseph C.; Katja Mellmann; Francis Steen; Eric Luttrell
Subject: for your possible interest

Hi all,

This is a shameless promotion of the new-ish online journal, Frontiers in Evolutionary Psychology, and my recent contribution to it.

--Michelle

http://www.frontiersin.org/Journal/Abstract.aspx?s=413&name=evolutionary_psychology&ART_DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00133

#768

From: "Mike Tintner" <tintner@...>
Date: Sun Sep 4, 2011 1:12 pm
Subject: Story-editing

andarot

http://www.amazon.com/Redirect-Surprising-Science-Psychological-Change/product-reviews/0316051888/ref=dp_top_cm_cr_acr_txt?ie=UTF8&showViewpoints=1

[Has anyone picked up on the practical psychological application of "story-editing" and personal story writing, which seem to be quite common in various fields of psychotherapy? They seem relevant to recent discussions touched on here about the functions of the narrative arts].

From Amazon review of "Redirect"

5.0 out of 5 stars Redirect answers the question, Is it possible to advance our society, improve ourselves, remodel our children, August 27, 2011

Didaskalex "Eusebius Alexandrinus" (Kellia on Calvary, Carolina, USA) - See all my reviews
(VINE VOICE) (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)

This review is from: Redirect: The Surprising New Science of Psychological Change (Hardcover)

*****
"Wouldn't it be amazing if a very smart scientist could write a book on happiness, crime, violence, drug and alcohol abuse, parenting, and teenage pregnancy--and sum up all the research in clear and surprising lessons...? Well, Timothy Wilson is the scientist and Redirect is the book, and it is in fact amazing." --Daniel Wegner, Harvard University

Dr. Timothy Wilson, world-renowned psychologist, replies affirmatively to the fundamental question, "Is it possible to advance our society, improve ourselves, remodel our children?" His proposed method, that many social reformers and educators would find very compelling, states that the most effective concepts are so deceptively simple to be believed plausible. While we tell ourselves stories, to make sense of the chaotic world we live in, our accounts help decide if we will lead sound, rational lives or foment trouble. Timothy Wilson, author of "Strangers to Ourselves" explains with his new theory, exploring the "Adaptive Unconscious" Grounded in science, he shows you how to make your life happier, turning you into an inspiring parent, to solve your kids erratic behavior, and even promote their scholastic achievement, bettering their education. This methodology, he calls, "Story Editing," effectively redirects the stories we tell about ourselves translating the world around us, in ways that lead to continuing progress.

"Evolutionary psychology has become a dominant force in the field," says Harvard Professor of Psychology Daniel Gilbert, "As an explanation for current social behavior, it can be a useful heuristic, if it can generate hypotheses that we would not have come up with otherwise that can then be tested with rigorous methods." One of the basic assumptions of the field, reflects Wilson, is that it's not the objective environment that influences people, but their constructs of the world. You have to get inside people's heads and see the world the way they do. To which replies Daniel Gilbert, "If liberating the unconscious had been Wilson's only contribution to psychological science, it would have been enough. But it was just the start. "What matters most is not pressuring the people whom we want to change, but subtly helping them to shift the stories that they tell about themselves. Whether you are a parent, educator, employer, or simply someone who cares about making the world a better place, ... Read this book."--Sonja Lyubomirsky, Professor of Psychology, UCRS

.....

In "Redirect," Timothy Wilson focuses on psychological strategies of changing one's way of viewing life and re-directing their thought processes to become more optimistic. Popular strategies that Wilson uses in his book include story-editing (which is refocusing one's view on a particular problem: e.g. the student who attributes his failed test to being stupid, versus a student who attributes his failed test to not enough studying--as a basic example of this premise), using writing as a way of coming to terms with a problem, and much more.

#769

From: William Benzon <bbenzon@...>
Date: Tue Sep 13, 2011 6:52 pm
Subject: NEW SAVANNA: Reading Latour 12: Actor-Network Theory and Literary Studies

bbenzon

Dear Colleagues,

Over the past few weeks I’ve been slowly working my way through Bruno Latour’s Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network Theory, quite a remarkable book. These notes represent a first cut at what his thinking about society implies for the study of literature. Briefly, it implies that texts serve as standards. That’s hardly a new idea. But it’s interesting to see it show up in this intellectual context.

What’s really interesting, however, is how this fits in with the full range of Latour’s thinking about society. Some of that is indicated in these notes. Most of it, alas, is not, as you might infer from the fact this is the 12th in my notes about this book.

Best,

Bill Benzon

http://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2011/09/reading-latour-12-actor-network-theory.html

--

William L. Benzon, Ph. D.
222 Van Horne St. 3R
Jersey City, NJ 07304
201 217-1010

New Savanna (blog): http://new-savanna.blogspot.com/
Mind-Culture Coevolution: http://asweknowit.ca/evcult/
The Valve (cultural blog): http://tinyurl.com/ormqg
Flickr: http://flickr.com/photos/stc4blues/
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/STC4blues

#770

From: Mimi Hegge <mimihegge@...>
Date: Fri Sep 23, 2011 9:02 pm
Subject: New Publication: Why We Like Music: Ear, Emotion, Evolution

mimihegge

Hello,

I am the Director of Communications and Engagement at Music Word Media Group, the publisher of Why We Like Music: Ear, Emotion and Evolution, a book on music and evolution.

I want to let people know about the book but am also writing to invite those of you with expertise in the subjects addressed to review, foster discussion, provide feedback and recommend the text to others without a technical or scientific background.

The book brings perspective to claims for music's effects on intelligence and brain development and addresses the question of whether music is an evolutionary adaptation. The author, Silvia Bencivelli evenly surveys the range of recent studies on music, the brain and the different conclusions they suggest.

She paints vivid and human pictures of the scientists involved in the search for answers to some of the deepest questions of human development and gives clear insight into their motivations, and examines their methods and rationale for carrying out experimental tests of various kinds. Her natural command of science and medicine and experience interpreting these technical subjects in her work as a journalist for television and radio allows her to explain briefly for general readers how disputes have arisen and been settled, often over highly technical details.

I would be happy to answer questions about the book or provide a digital copy of a chapter for review to any who request it. Please visit www.whywelikemusic.info for more detailed information about the book, author and publisher. The book is available in paperback or electronic edition at Amazon.com.

Thank you for your time and interest.

Sincerely,

Mimi Hegge

____________________________________
Mimi Hegge
Music Word Media Group
publicity@...
+1 917 677 2737
www.musicwordmedia.net
http://www.facebook.com/musicwordmedia

#771

From: "Carroll, Joseph C." <jcarroll@...>
Date: Thu Oct 6, 2011 5:43 pm
Subject: RE: a Call for Papers for a special issue of the journal Style

jcarroll@...

Hi folks,

This is just a reminder of the deadline for a special issue of the journal Style that is being devoted to evolutionary commentaries on literary texts. The deadline for submitting articles is December 1, 2012. The special issue is being edited by Brett Cooke and Clinton Machann.

Articles should make use of current knowledge about evolved human dispositions (motives, emotions, cognition) and should offer critiques of specific works of literature or specific authors. The editors are particularly interested in articles that deal with major (canonical) authors or works. They also welcome articles that focus on teaching specific literary works from an evolutionary perspective. The editors invite commentary on literary works written in any language, but all articles must be written in English.

Articles should conform to Style’s requirements: 5,000 to 7,000 words (inclusive of endnotes and works cited); MLA guidelines for style and documentation. A 100-word abstract and full contact information should be included.

Please submit articles to Prof. Brett Cooke (brett-cooke@...), European & Classical Languages & Cultures, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-4215. Inquiries may be addressed either to him or to Clinton Machann of Texas A&M University: c-machann@...<mailto:c-machann@...>.

If you’d like to know a little more about evolutionary studies in literature, the Wikipedia entry offers a concise overview with a list of references: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwinian_literary_studies

For a good sampling of works done in this field so far, see this volume: http://www.amazon.com/Evolution-Literature-Film-Brian-Boyd/dp/0231150199/ref=pd_sim_b1

I’m not a co-editor of this volume. I’m just helping spread the word. The volume is going to be good and important—with many interesting essays.

Joe Carroll

Joseph Carroll

Curators' Professor

English Department

University of Missouri, St. Louis

St. Louis, MO 63121

home phone 314 432 5583

http://www.sunypress.edu/p-5132-reading-human-nature.aspx

http://www.sunypress.edu/p-5077-the-evolutionary-review-volume-2-issue-1-annual.aspx

Reply | Messages in this Topic (3)

#772

From: William Benzon <bbenzon@...>
Date: Wed Oct 19, 2011 7:09 pm
Subject: NEW SAVANNA: Introduction: Reading Latour

bbenzon

Dear Colleagues,

Over the past month and a half or so I've been working my way through Bruno
Latour's *Reassembling the Social.* As you may know, he's French, and he
theorizes, but he doesn't do French Theory as it is recognized in the
American Academy. What he does is, to my taste, rather more interesting.

He's also, in a piece published in NLH last year, issued a "compositionist"
manifesto. I've decided to sign on to compositionism as the least inaccurate
characterization of how I approach literature and, more generally, culture.

The following paragraphs set out the general scope of these notes. In
particular, there's a late one in the series devoted entirely to literary
studies in view of Latour's Actor-Network Theory.

Finally, I note that Latour regards description as a, if not the, primary
intellectual activity in the human sciences. In that I heartily concur.

Best,

Bill B

* * * * *


The first set, RL0, contains my (provisional) thoughts on compositionism,
suggesting that it has various precursors, including the cognitive science
movement. I conclude those notes by suggesting that the future of
compositionism lies precisely in redrawing the boundaries between psychology
and sociology, which Latour calls for in RS, but does not deliver in a deep
way.

And that, in turn, sets the stage, it seems to me, for what I was up in my
sets of notes. On the one hand, yes, I was reading RS and commenting on it.
But I was also assimilating it to my own work, and my work to it, though an
extensive series of reflections on graffiti. Graffiti and its culture is
just the sort of phenomenon for which Actor Network Theory (ANT) was
devised. It is a relatively new phenomenon�dating only back to the early
1970s�and it is not yet fully institutionalized. It is in flux.

My descriptive notes on graffiti stay, for the most part, within the social
sphere. Where I talk of cost-benefit calculations, of the significance of
so-called �pieces�, and about stylistic fidelity (RL3), however, I move into
psychology. Those notes are about how graffiti writers think about their
work. Later on I move more deeply into psychology with discussions of
cognitive science, music, and literature. Accordingly, the following listing
shows the �intrusions� of other material into observations directly on
Latour�s ideas. Collectively, this other material suggests ways of extending
Latourian analysis and description of society to and through psychology to
culture.


http://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2011/10/introduction-reading-latour.html

#773

From: "Brian Boyd (ARTS ENG)" <b.boyd@...>
Date: Sat Oct 22, 2011 12:56 am
Subject: Re: new book by Brian Boyd

bdbvvn

http://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-231-15856-5/stalking-nabokov

Dear all,

In case anyone on the list has an interest in Nabokov, my Stalking Nabokov: Selected Essays (Columbia) is now available, although the official publication date is not until November 8. It's not specifically evolutionary or cognitive, although this thread runs through the more recent pieces, especially "The Psychological Work of Fictional Play."

Columbia tells me:

The webpage is

although there's more info on Amazon.

Anyone in North America who uses the promo code �STABO� to buy the book from the Columbia site will receive a 30% discount off the price of the book.

Anyone in Australia or New Zealand who buys through the local distributor will receive a 15% discount:

http://www.footprint.com.au/

Purchasers will need to enter the code SN1011 when they check out after they have finished shopping on our website.

There will be sample pages (Contents, Intro, and the first (short) talk, A Centennial Toast, which has an interesting anecdote that will certainly go in a future second edition of the biography) on, as I understand it, the Columbia website, and perhaps also on Amazon, but this may not happen until Monday or Tuesday.

Enjoy, I hope!

Brian Boyd

#774

From: "Carroll, Joseph C." <jcarroll@...>
Date: Sat Oct 22, 2011 2:42 am
Subject: RE: Re: new book by Brian Boyd

jcarroll@...

http://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-231-15856-5/stalking-nabokov

Congratulations, Brian. I’m sure that gives you great satisfaction. You can be sure of eager and appreciative readers.

Joe

From: biopoet@yahoogroups.com [mailto:biopoet@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Brian Boyd (ARTS ENG)
Sent: Friday, October 21, 2011 7:56 PM
To: biopoet@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [biopoet] Re: new book by Brian Boyd

Dear all,

Columbia tells me:

The webpage is

although there's more info on Amazon.

Anyone in North America who uses the promo code “STABO” to buy the book from the Columbia site will receive a 30% discount off the price of the book.

Anyone in Australia or New Zealand who buys through the local distributor will receive a 15% discount:

http://www.footprint.com.au/

Purchasers will need to enter the code SN1011 when they check out after they have finished shopping on our website.

Enjoy, I hope!

Brian Boyd

#775

From: Jeff Turpin <jpturpin@...>
Date: Sat Oct 22, 2011 11:54 am
Subject: Re: Re: new book by Brian Boyd

jpturpin1

http://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-231-15856-5/stalking-nabokov

Nice work Brian. When's the North American book tour? jt

From: "Brian Boyd (ARTS ENG)" <b.boyd@...>
To: biopoet@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, October 21, 2011 8:56:18 PM
Subject: [biopoet] Re: new book by Brian Boyd

Dear all,

Columbia tells me:

The webpage is

although there's more info on Amazon.

Anyone in North America who uses the promo code “STABO” to buy the book from the Columbia site will receive a 30% discount off the price of the book.

Anyone in Australia or New Zealand who buys through the local distributor will receive a 15% discount:

http://www.footprint.com.au/

Purchasers will need to enter the code SN1011 when they check out after they have finished shopping on our website.

Enjoy, I hope!

Brian Boyd

#776

From: "Brian Boyd (ARTS ENG)" <b.boyd@...>
Date: Sat Oct 22, 2011 8:35 pm
Subject: Re: Re: new book by Brian Boyd

bdbvvn

Hi Jeff,

None, I think, although there's just a possibility of a function with another Nabokov author at the NY Public Library in April--when I'll have another book out, Why Lyrics Last: Evolution, Cognition, and Shakespeare's Sonnets (Harvard).

Best,

Brian

On 23/10/2011, at 12:54 AM, Jeff Turpin wrote:

Nice work Brian. When's the North American book tour? jt

From: "Brian Boyd (ARTS ENG)" <b.boyd@...>
To: biopoet@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, October 21, 2011 8:56:18 PM
Subject: [biopoet] Re: new book by Brian Boyd

Dear all,

In case anyone on the list has an interest in Nabokov, my Stalking Nabokov: Selected Essays (Columbia) is now available, although the official publication date is not until November 8. It's not specifically evolutionary or cognitive, although this thread runs through the more recent pieces, especially "The Psychological Work of Fictional Play."

Columbia tells me:

The webpage is

http://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-231-15856-5/stalking-nabokov

although there's more info on Amazon.

Anyone in North America who uses the promo code �STABO� to buy the book from the Columbia site will receive a 30% discount off the price of the book.

Anyone in Australia or New Zealand who buys through the local distributor will receive a 15% discount:

http://www.footprint.com.au/

Purchasers will need to enter the code SN1011 when they check out after they have finished shopping on our website.

There will be sample pages (Contents, Intro, and the first (short) talk, A Centennial Toast, which has an interesting anecdote that will certainly go in a future second edition of the biography) on, as I understand it, the Columbia website, and perhaps also on Amazon, but this may not happen until Monday or Tuesday.

Enjoy, I hope!

Brian Boyd

#777

From: William Benzon <bbenzon@...>
Date: Wed Oct 26, 2011 2:15 pm
Subject: NEW SAVANNA: The Sins of Steven Pinker: Or, Let�s Get on with It

bbenzon

Hi folks,

You undoubtedly know that Steven Pinker’s published his long-in-the-works book on violence. You may also have heard that folks at Crooked Timber managed to generate 50,000 words of vigorous criticism of ANGELS without actually having read the book. The whole thing was so ridiculous that I decided to write a bit of commentary on it.

Best,

Bill B

http://new-savanna.blogspot.com/2011/10/sins-of-steven-pinker-or-lets-get-on.html

#778

From: "Carroll, Joseph C." <jcarroll@...>
Date: Fri Oct 28, 2011 12:33 am
Subject: registration open for consilience conference

jcarroll@...

Hi everybody,

The webpage for the consilience conference in St. Louis in late April is now open. http://consilienceconference.com/

You can register for the conference and also get a reservation at the conference hotel, the Moonrise. There will be a shuttle from the hotel to the conference venue at the University of Missouri, St. Louis.

Graduate students and post-docs are invited to submit poster proposals (deadline Feb. 15).

There are 19 invited speakers, six each from evolutionary biology, the evolutionary social sciences, and the humanities. E. O. Wilson is giving the keynote.

Hope to see you there. Should be highly stimulating.

Joe Carroll

Joseph Carroll

Curators' Professor

English Department

University of Missouri, St. Louis

St. Louis, MO 63121

home phone 314 432 5583

http://www.sunypress.edu/p-5132-reading-human-nature.aspx

http://www.sunypress.edu/p-5077-the-evolutionary-review-volume-2-issue-1-annual.aspx

Home Address:

9038 Old Bonhomme Road

St. Louis, MO 63132

Reply | Messages in this Topic (2)

#779

From: Jeff Turpin <jpturpin@...>
Date: Fri Oct 28, 2011 4:41 pm
Subject: Re: registration open for consilience conference

jpturpin1

Fantastic! Thanks Joe (and need I say, it's about time this happened). Hope to see you there. jt

From: "Joseph C. Carroll" <jcarroll@...>
To: jcarroll@...
Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2011 7:33:22 PM
Subject: [biopoet] registration open for consilience conference

Hi everybody,

The webpage for the consilience conference in St. Louis in late April is now open. http://consilienceconference.com/

Graduate students and post-docs are invited to submit poster proposals (deadline Feb. 15).

There are 19 invited speakers, six each from evolutionary biology, the evolutionary social sciences, and the humanities. E. O. Wilson is giving the keynote.

Hope to see you there. Should be highly stimulating.

Joe Carroll

Joseph Carroll

Curators' Professor

English Department

University of Missouri, St. Louis

St. Louis, MO 63121

home phone 314 432 5583

http://www.sunypress.edu/p-5132-reading-human-nature.aspx

http://www.sunypress.edu/p-5077-the-evolutionary-review-volume-2-issue-1-annual.aspx

Home Address:

9038 Old Bonhomme Road

St. Louis, MO 63132

Reply | Messages in this Topic (2)

#780

From: "Carroll, Joseph C." <jcarroll@...>
Date: Fri Nov 11, 2011 4:04 am
Subject: RE: a Call for Papers for a special issue of the journal Style

jcarroll@...

Hi folks,

Brett Cooke asked me to tell everybody that the deadline for the special evolutionary issue of the journal Style has been extended. The original deadline was December 1, 2011. The new deadline is January 15, 2012. Late December is high pressure. The Christmas break gives potential contributors more time to produce and polish a paper.

Joe

From: Carroll, Joseph C.
Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2011 12:44 PM
To: Carroll, Joseph C. (jcarroll@...)
Subject: RE: a Call for Papers for a special issue of the journal Style

Hi folks,

This is just a reminder of the deadline for a special issue of the journal Style that is being devoted to evolutionary commentaries on literary texts. The deadline for submitting articles is December 1, 2011. The special issue is being edited by Brett Cooke and Clinton Machann.

For a good sampling of works done in this field so far, see this volume: http://www.amazon.com/Evolution-Literature-Film-Brian-Boyd/dp/0231150199/ref=pd_sim_b1

I’m not a co-editor of this volume. I’m just helping spread the word. The volume is going to be good and important—with many interesting essays.

Joe Carroll

Joseph Carroll

Curators' Professor

English Department

University of Missouri, St. Louis

St. Louis, MO 63121

home phone 314 432 5583

http://www.sunypress.edu/p-5132-reading-human-nature.aspx

http://www.sunypress.edu/p-5077-the-evolutionary-review-volume-2-issue-1-annual.aspx

Reply | Messages in this Topic (3)

#781

From: Alex Parrish <alexcparrish@...>
Date: Fri Nov 18, 2011 12:30 am
Subject: Royal Society Archives Open-Access

alex_c_parrish

I received this link on the ARST listserv today, but it is potentially of interest to more than just rhetoricians.

http://royalsociety.org/news/Royal-Society-journal-archive-made-permanently-free-to-access/

The Royal�Society has today announced that its world-famous historical�journal archive�� which includes thefirst ever peer-reviewed scientific journal�� has been made permanently free to access online.
...
Treasures in the archive include�Isaac Newton�s first published scientific paper,�geological work by a young Charles Darwin, and Benjamin Franklin�s�celebrated account of his electrical kite experiment.� And nestling amongst these illustrious papers, readers willing to delve a little deeper into the archive may find some undiscovered gems from the dawn of the scientific revolution � including accounts of�monstrous calves, grisly tales of�students being struck by lightning, and early experiments on to�how to cool drinks��without the Help of Snow, Ice, Haile, Wind or Niter, and That at Any Time of the Year.�

�

_______________________________________________
Alex C. Parrish

Department of English
Washington State University
P.O. Box 645020
Pullman, WA 99164-5020

341 Avery Hall, (509) 335-8818