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Biopoetics: Evolutionary Explorations in the Arts »

Authors: Brett Cook, Frederick Turner (Editor), Brett Cooke
ISBN-13: 9780892262052, ISBN-10: 0892262052
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Paragon House Publishers
Date Published: April 1999
Edition: (Non-applicable)

	Acknowledgments
	Biopoetics: The New Synthesis	3
	"Making Special" - An Undescribed Human Universal and the Core of a Behavior of Art	27
	The Descent of Fantasy	47
	Preliminary Remarks on Literary Memetics	59
	On Art	71
	Edward O. Wilson on Art	97
	An Ecopoetics of Beauty and Meaning	119
	"Theory," Anti-Theory, and Empirical Criticism	139
	Biochemicals and Brains: Natural Selection for Manipulators of Sexual Ecstacy and Fantasy	157
	Sexual Property in Pushkin's "The Snowstorm": A Darwinist Perspective	175
	Gethenian Nature, Human Nature, and the Nature of Reproduction: A Fantastic Flight through Ethnographic Hyperspace	205
	The Dance with Darkness: The Limits of Human Interest in Science Fiction	219
	Do Cognitive Predispositions Predict or Determine Literary Value Judgments? Narrativity, Plot, and Aesthetics	241
	Art: The Replicable Unit	263
	Imagination and Survival: The Case of Fantastic Literature	293
	The "Novel" Novel: A Sociobiological Analysis of the Novelty Drive As Expressed in Science Fiction	315
	Tragedy and Chaos	335
	The Prehistory of Theatre: A Path with Six Turnings	347
	Antecedents of Musical Meaning in the Mother-Infant Dyad	367
	In Search of Texture	399
	Literature of Early "Scientific" and "Evolution" Aesthetics	417
	Selectionist Studies of the Arts: An Annotated Bibliography	433
	Author's Page	465