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Author:   Donald R. Wehrs
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781032450018

ISBN 10:   1032450010
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   31 July 2023
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction: Literary Signification and Biocultural Sociality Part I: A Transcultural Historical Phenomenon and its Implications for Literary Theory Chapter One: Platonic Poetics and Axial Cultural Revolutions Chapter Two: Literary Theory and the Task of Accounting for Axial Hermeneutics Part II: Neurocognitive Underpinnings and Evolutionary Prehistories of Significance Discernment and Ethical Sense Chapter Three: Literary Significance’s Prehistory: Attentiveness, Affectivity, and Sociality Chapter Four: Literary Significance’s Prehistory: Trust, Subjectivity, and Symbolic Culture Chapter Five: Affective Dissonance, Moral Sociality, and the Prehistory of Ethical Sense Conclusion: Life Sciences, Cultural Studies, and Literary History Bibliography Index

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Donald R. Wehrs is Hargis Professor of English Literature at Auburn University, USA. He is the editor or co-editor of five collections, most recently Cultural Memory: From the Sciences to the Humanities (Routledge, 2023), and author of three books on African fiction and over 40 scholarly publications.

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