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100			_aCarroll, Joseph
245			_aEvolution and literary theory
260			_bUniversity of Missouri Press, _c1994 _aColumbia:
300			_axi, 518 p. _bill. _c25 cm.
365			_aUSD _b60.00, Rs. 4098.00
520			_aOver the past two decades, poststructuralism in its myriad forms has come to dominate literary criticism to the exclusion of virtually any other point of view. Few scholars have escaped the coercive authority of its programmatic radicalism. In Evolution and Literary Theory, Joseph Carroll vigorously attacks the foundational principles of poststructuralism and offers in their stead a bold new theory that situates literary criticism within the matrix of evolutionary theory." "Carroll anatomizes the irrationalism of current literary theory with surgical precision. In a concise, lucid prose, he lays bare the sophistries at the heart of the doctrines propounded by Derrida, Foucault, Jameson, Greenblatt, Eagleton, J. Hillis Miller, Fish, and many others. In opposition to the textualism and indeterminacy that constitute the central doctrines of poststructuralism, Carroll affiliates himself with a realist and naturalist tradition of thought that runs from Darwin and Huxley, through Leslie Stephen and Thorstein Veblen, to Konrad Lorenz and Karl Popper. He offers a comprehensive synthesis of current evolutionary theory in the human sciences, and he shows why the evolutionary paradigm provides the only adequate source for a modern theory of culture.
650			_aDarwin, Charles
650			_aCriticism
650			_aLiterature and science
650			_aDarwinian Critical Paradigm
650			_aDoctrinal Orientation
650			_aLiterary Figuration
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