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Evolutionary Psychology and Literary Criticism : How to Bring the Two Together, and also Build a Better Model of the Ev

Evolutionary Psychology and Literary Criticism : How to Bring the Two Together, and also Build a Better Model of the Evolved Human Mind. We’ll start by building a model of the mind, working up through three stages:. We’ll start by building a model of the mind,

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Evolutionary Psychology and Literary Criticism : How to Bring the Two Together, and also Build a Better Model of the Ev

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  1. Evolutionary Psychology and Literary Criticism: How to Bring the Two Together, and also Build a Better Model of the Evolved Human Mind

  2. We’ll start by building a model of the mind, working up through three stages:

  3. We’ll start by building a model of the mind, working up through three stages: • Narrow-School EP(Evolutionary Psychology): • (John Tooby and Leda Cosmides, David Buss, Steven Pinker)

  4. We’ll start by building a model of the mind, working up through three stages: • Narrow-School EP(Evolutionary Psychology): • (John Tooby and Leda Cosmides, David Buss, Steven Pinker) 2)Broad-School EP: (Dave Geary, Kevin MacDonald, Kim Sterelny)

  5. We’ll start by building a model of the mind, working up through three stages: • Narrow-School EP(Evolutionary Psychology): • (John Tooby and Leda Cosmides, David Buss, Steven Pinker) 2)Broad-School EP: (Dave Geary, Kevin MacDonald, Kim Sterelny) 3)The Fully Human Mind: (E. O. Wilson, Ellen Dissanayake, Joseph Carroll, Brian Boyd)

  6. The Evolved and Adapted Human Mind

  7. The Evolved and Adapted Human Mind Narrow-School EP = Instincts, Dispositions, Motives: Survival Growing Up Sociality Mating Parenting Kinship, plus side effects: (art, pornography, religion, drugs)

  8. The Evolved and Adapted Human Mind Broad-School EP = Narrow-School EP Plus Narrow-School EP = Instincts, Dispositions, Motives: Survival Growing Up Sociality Mating Parenting Kinship, plus side effects: (art, pornography, religion, drugs) General Intelligence: Technology Logistics Social Organization Trade Theology Philosophy History Aesthetics Science

  9. The Evolved and Adapted Human Mind Broad-School EP = Narrow-School EP Plus The Fully Human Mind = Broad-School EP Plus Narrow-School EP = Instincts, Dispositions, Motives: Survival Growing Up Sociality Mating Parenting Kinship, plus side effects: (art, pornography, religion, drugs) General Intelligence: Technology Logistics Social Organization Trade Theology Philosophy History Aesthetics Science Imagination: Religion Art Music Stories Myths Ideology

  10. General Intelligence and Imagination are part of human nature— as faculties, as motives, and as adaptive functions.

  11. Narrow-School EP Basic Motives

  12. Broad-School EP Narrow-School EP Basic Motives General Intelligence

  13. The Fully Human Mind Broad-School EP Narrow-School EP Basic Motives General Intelligence Imagination

  14. What does all this have to do with literary Criticism?

  15. Here is the first thing that usually happens in evolutionary literary study— and sometimes the only thing that happens.

  16. Here is the first thing that usually happens in evolutionary literary study— and sometimes the only thing that happens. Human universals: motives, emotions, personality traits, social dynamics Thedepicted behaviors: characters, setting, and plot

  17. What’s missing? Human universals: motives, emotions, personality traits, social dynamics Thedepicted behaviors: characters, setting, and plot

  18. What’s missing? Well, culture, for one thing. Human universals: motives, emotions, personality traits, social dynamics Thedepicted behaviors: characters, setting, and plot A specific cultural context:social organization, religion, myths, ideologies, artistic traditions, conventional forms

  19. We’ll call this biocultural critique. Biocultural Complex Human universals: motives, emotions, personality traits, social dynamics Thedepicted behaviors: characters, setting, and plot A specific cultural context:social organization, religion, myths, ideologies, artistic traditions, conventional forms

  20. What else is missing? Biocultural Complex Human universals: motives, emotions, personality traits, social dynamics Thedepicted behaviors: characters, setting, and plot A specific cultural context:social organization, religion, myths, ideologies, artistic traditions, conventional forms

  21. There’s more to meaningand effect than depicted behavior. Biocultural Complex Human universals: motives, emotions, personality traits, social dynamics Thedepicted behaviors: characters, setting, and plot A specific cultural context:social organization, religion, myths, ideologies, artistic traditions, conventional forms

  22. We can build meaningand effect Biocultural Complex Human universals: motives, emotions, personality traits, social dynamics Thedepicted behaviors: characters, setting, and plot A specific cultural context:social organization, religion, myths, ideologies, artistic traditions, conventional forms

  23. We can build meaningand effect piece by piece. Biocultural Complex Human universals: motives, emotions, personality traits, social dynamics Thedepicted behaviors: characters, setting, and plot A specific cultural context:social organization, religion, myths, ideologies, artistic traditions, conventional forms

  24. The Meaning and Effect of the Story Biocultural Complex Human universals: motives, emotions, personality traits, social dynamics Thedepicted behaviors: characters, setting, and plot A specific cultural context:social organization, religion, myths, ideologies, artistic traditions, conventional forms

  25. The Meaning and Effect of the Story Biocultural Complex The impliedauthor Human universals: motives, emotions, personality traits, social dynamics Thedepicted behaviors: characters, setting, and plot A specific cultural context:social organization, religion, myths, ideologies, artistic traditions, conventional forms

  26. The Meaning and Effect of the Story Biocultural Complex The implied author Human universals: motives, emotions, personality traits, social dynamics Thedepicted behaviors: characters, setting, and plot A specific cultural context:social organization, religion, myths, ideologies, artistic traditions, conventional forms

  27. The Meaning and Effect of the Story Biocultural Complex The implied author Human universals: motives, emotions, personality traits, social dynamics Thedepicted behaviors: characters, setting, and plot A specific cultural context:social organization, religion, myths, ideologies, artistic traditions, conventional forms Functional structure of the parts

  28. The Meaning and Effect of the Story Biocultural Complex The implied author Human universals: motives, emotions, personality traits, social dynamics Thedepicted behaviors: characters, setting, and plot A specific cultural context:social organization, religion, myths, ideologies, artistic traditions, conventional forms Functional structure of the parts

  29. The Meaning and Effect of the Story The implied reader Biocultural Complex The implied author Human universals: motives, emotions, personality traits, social dynamics Thedepicted behaviors: characters, setting, and plot A specific cultural context:social organization, religion, myths, ideologies, artistic traditions, conventional forms Functional structure of the parts

  30. The Meaning and Effect of the Story The implied reader Biocultural Complex The implied author Human universals: motives, emotions, personality traits, social dynamics Thedepicted behaviors: characters, setting, and plot A specific cultural context:social organization, religion, myths, ideologies, artistic traditions, conventional forms Functional structure of the parts

  31. You—the reader, the critic, the person who makes sense of it all The Meaning and Effect of the Story The implied reader Biocultural Complex The implied author Human universals: motives, emotions, personality traits, social dynamics Thedepicted behaviors: characters, setting, and plot A specific cultural context:social organization, religion, myths, ideologies, artistic traditions, conventional forms Functional structure of the parts

  32. You—the reader, the critic, the person who makes sense of it all Your interpretive and explanatory propositions The Meaning and Effect of the Story The implied reader Biocultural Complex The implied author Human universals: motives, emotions, personality traits, social dynamics Thedepicted behaviors: characters, setting, and plot A specific cultural context:social organization, religion, myths, ideologies, artistic traditions, conventional forms Functional structure of the parts

  33. Thanks for your Attention.

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