Essays about: "literary Darwinism"

Found 1 essay containing the words literary Darwinism.

  1. 1. An Evolutionary Analysis of Moby Dick: The Pequod's Search for Brotherhood, Status, and Mystery

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – Media; Lunds universitet/Litteraturvetenskap

    Author : Peter Steadman; [2011]
    Keywords : Evolution; Herman Melville; literary Darwinism; Moby Dick; Languages and Literatures;

    Abstract : Applying contemporary ideas regarding the role literature may have had in human evolutionary history to literary analysis, using Herman Melville's Moby Dick as a case study. The paper focuses on the function of male bonding in the text, the ways in which the setting is defined by humanity's evolutionary past, and the artistic function of the hunt, as it is described in the text. READ MORE