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English Department at NIU

Northern Illinois University

Joseph Carroll
Target Essay: An Evolutionary Paradigm for Literary Study

Responses, listed below

Book Review:
John V. Knapp
The Rape of Troy: Evolution, Violence, and the World of Homer. By Jonathan Gottschall 
 

Gordon M. Burghardt
Evolution and Paradigms in the Study of Literature / 144

Brett Cooke
Compliments and Complements / 150

Frederick Crews
Apriorism for Empiricists / 155

Ellen Dissanayake
Beyond Words: Can Literary Darwinism Address the Unsaid and Inexpressible in Literary Creation and Response? / 161

Karl Eibl and Katja Mellmann
Misleading Alternatives / 166

Lyle Eslinger
The Evolving Study of Literature / 172

Jeffrey E. Foy and Richard J. Gerrig
How Might Literature Do Harm? / 175

Harold Fromm
Human Nature’s Human Nature / 179

Eugene Goodheart
Do We Need Literary Darwinism? / 181

Jonathan Gottschall
What Are Literary Scholars For? What is Art For? / 186

Torben Grodal
Evoluntionary Theory and the Naturalist Fallacy / 192

Geoffrey Galt Harpham
Disciplinary Fitness / 197

Patrick Colm Hogan
For Evolutionary Criticism, Against Genetic Absolutism / 202

Tim Horvath
The Unkempt Art / 207

Tony Jackson
A Response to Joseph Carroll / 212

Fotis Jannidis
Evolutionary Psychology and Literary Studies / 217

Frank Kelleter
Complex Realities, Adequate Reductions: A Reply to Joseph Carroll / 222

Amy Mallory-Kani and Kenneth Womack
The Bottlenecks of Literary Darwinism / 229

David S. Miall
Completing the Paradigm: In Pursuit of Evidence / 234

David Michelson
Response to Joseph Carroll / 239

Catherine Salmon
Reflections on Literary Darwinism / 244

Judith P. Saunders
Ideas of Order: Artists Describing the Arts / 247

Michelle Scalise Sugiyama
Information is the Stuff of Narrative / 254

Roger Seamon
Literary Darwinism as Science and Myth / 261

Edward Slingerland
Good and Bad Reductionism: Acknowledging the Power of Culture / 266

David Livingstone 
Literature as Self-Engineering: An Evolutionary Smith Hypothesis / 272

Murray Smith
The Evolutionary Paradigm: The View from Film Studies / 277

Ellen Spolsky
The Centrality of the Exceptional in Literary Study / 285

Robert Storey
Art and Religion: Co-evolved Phenomena / 290

Peter Swirski
Four Ways to Skin a Cat: Evolution and Literary Study / 296

Blakey Vermeule
Response to Joseph Carroll / 302

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