Mankind
Quarterly, Vol. 47, No. 1 (Fall-Winter 2006)
pp. 95-105
Book Review Article: Three
Books on Sociobiology and the Arts
John Glad
University of Maryland
Book Reviewed Article of:
Biopoetics: Evolutionary Explorations in the Arts
edited by Brett Cooke and Frederick Turner with contributions
by Nancy Aiken, Wayne E. Allen, Alexander Argyros,
Joseph Carroll, Kathryn Coe, Lee Cronk, Koen Depryck,
Ellenn Dissanayake, Nancy Easterlin, Brian K. Hansen,
Joseph D. Miller, Eric S. Rabkin, Daniel Rancour-Laferriere,
and Gary Westfahl
ICUS (International Conference on the Unity of the
Sciences), 1999, 466 pages
Madame
Bovary's Ovaries: A Darwinian Look at Literature by
David P. Barash and Nanelle R. Barash
Delacorte Press, 2005, 262 pages
The
Literary Animal: Evolution and the Nature of Narrative
edited by Jonathan Gottschall and David Sloan Wilson
with contributions by Brian Boyd, Joseph Carroll,
Frederick Crews, Denis Dutton, Dylan Evans, Maryanne
Fisher, Robin Fox, Ian Jobling, Daniel J. Kruger,
Ian McEwan, Daniel Nettle, Marcus Nordland, Catherine
Salmon, and Michelle Scalise Sugiyama.
Northwestern University Press, 2005, 304 pages