Literatura kot evolucijska prilagoditev
Ključne besede:
literatura in evolucija, literarni darvinizem, evolucijska prilagoditev, esencializem, kontekstualizemPovzetek
Ali je literatura evolucijska prilagoditev ali morda stranski produkt evolucije, je osrednje vprašanje posebne literarnovedne smeri, imenovane »literarni darvinizem«, katere predstavniki od devetdesetih let dvajsetega stoletja dalje raziskujejo morebitne zveze med principi teorije evolucije in literaturo. Članek sintetizira najvplivnejše literarnodarvinistične argumente v prid tezi, da je literatura evolucijska prilagoditev, in jih sooča s kritičnimi pomisleki, dekonstruira pa tudi pomen središčnosti spraševanja po evolucijskih funkcijah literature znotraj literarnega darvinizma in literarne vede nasploh. Izkaže se dvoje: 1) da teza, da je literatura evolucijska prilagoditev, (še) ni zadovoljivo dokazana in 2) da je osrednja vloga tega spraševanja v teoriji literarnega darvinizma posledica kulturnega boja med esencialisti in kontekstualisti.Literatura
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