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Title:
Interdisciplinary essays on Darwinism in Hispanic literature and film : the intersection of science and the humanities / edited by Jerry Hoeg and Kevin S. Larsen ; with a foreword by Joseph Henry Vogel.
Publisher:
Edwin Mellen Press,
Copyright Date:
c2009
Description:
ix, 309 p. ; 24 cm.
Subject:
Latin American literature--History and criticism.
Spanish literature--History and criticism.
Evolution (Biology) in literature.
Biology in motion pictures.
Science and the humanities--Latin America.
Darwin, Charles,--1809-1882--Influence.
Other Authors:
Hoeg, Jerry, 1951-
Larsen, Kevin S.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-309).
Contents:
Magical realism, biological reality, and the hidden biology of fantasy, secrecy, and mystery / by David Barash -- The science wars in a long view: putting the human in its place / by Joseph Carroll -- Case study: the trickster genre and the free rider problem / by Michelle Scalise Sugiyama -- Nature versus nurture in La casa de Bernarda Alba / by Jerry Hoeg -- Darwin, sexual selection, and the Spanish novel in the late nineteenth century / by Travis Landry -- Consilience of human evolution and a seemingly trivial detail in the "The story of the captive" by Cervantes / by Camilo Gomides -- Toward a natural history of the soul: Cervantes, Don Quijote pt. 2, chs. 13-14, and the culture of Limpieza de Sangre / by Kevin S. Larsen -- The selective female: a Darwinian interpretation of Aluísio Azevedo's O cortiço / by Ricardo Waizbort -- José Marti and evolution: an analysis on nation and race / by Adriana Novoa -- Adaptive functions of origin tales: Chican@ culture and the Aztlán myth / by Jeff P. Turpin -- Empathy and conflicting moral norms: a bio-cultural affective analysis of Babel / by David Michelson -- Conceptual knowledge of natural selection: a comparison study between Mexican-American and Anglo-American college students / by María R. Gutiérrez, Cruz C. Torres, and Roel R. López.
ISBN:
0773447474
9780773447479 (hc)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)318672999
LCCN:
2009015892
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)

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