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In this study, the author argues that human culture derives from human biology and that literary representation therefore must have a biological basis. As he ponders the question What does it mean to say that art imitates life? he must consider both What is life? and What is art? . Part 1 addresses issues of human biology, psyche and language; Part 2 applies the model sketched out in Part 1 to various narratives: tragedy, comedy and the novel.

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[S]ucceeds in showing that for scholars of literature with a truly theoretical bent, study of the biological and behavioral sciences can provide a solid foundation for promising interdisciplinary literary research. -- World Literature Today

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Robert Storey is professor of English at Temple University. His previous books are Pierrot: A Critical History of a Mask and Pierrots on the Stage of Desire: Nineteenth-Century French Literary Artists and the Comic Pantomime.

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