Questioning Interdisciplinarity: Cognitive Science, Evolutionary Psychology, and Literary Criticism
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Issues and Problems in the Blending of Cognitive Science, Evolutionary Psychology, and Literary Study
The present issue of Poetics Today brings together seven different writings that in one way or another have to do with the interdisciplinary mix of cognitive science, evolutionary psychology, and literary studies. For the sake of discussion I will separate the essays into different kinds based on different qualities, even though all share the qualities to some degree.We have samples of two main...
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عنوان ژورنال: Poetics Today
سال: 2000
ISSN: 0333-5372,1527-5507
DOI: 10.1215/03335372-21-2-319