Evolutionary perspectives on imaginative culture. ([2020])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Jospeh Carroll, Mathias Clasen, Emelie Jonsson, editors.
• Editors: Carroll, Joseph; Clasen, Mathias; Jonsson, Emelie
• Contents: Part I: The Evolution of Imagination -- The Behaviorally Modern Human Imagination -- The Evolution of Imagination through Narratives and Belief -- Part II: Meta-Narratives -- Imagining the Gods -- The Evolution of Traits and Stories: Two Rival Templates for Self-Understanding -- Descent with Imagination: The Cultural Evolution of Traditional Narratives -- The Unimaginable Place in Nature: Literary Resistance to Darwinian Evolution -- Epic Communities and Cosmic Apprenticeship: Group-Belonging and Social Learning in Popular Science Books -- Part III: Aesthetics, Music, and the Plastic Arts -- Tapping the Imagination at the Dawn of Human Culture: Art, Brain and Evolutionary Pressures -- Evolutionary Constraints on Creativity in the Visual and Plastic Arts -- The Role of Aesthetic Style in Framing Cognitive Orientation Towards the Future -- The Evolution of Music: A Paradigm of Embodied Cognition -- The Influence of Image Salience on Artistic Expression: Cross-Cultural Examples of Large Felid Predators -- Key Stimuli and Power Objects: Aesthetics and Humans Inborn Sensibilities -- Part IV: Film, Media, and Performance -- Film and Coevolution: Kubricks Movies as Modes of Religious Ritual -- Why Women Love Bromance: The Rise of Slash Fiction -- "Unbreakable, Incorruptible, Unyielding": Doom as an Agency Simulator -- Part V: Literature -- Adaptive Flights of Fancy: An Evolutionary Perspective on Speculative Fiction -- Narrative and Verse -- and Comics -- Literary Representations of Parental Investment: Emotional Quandaries and Strategic Decisions.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 153.3; Imagination; Culture -- Psychological aspects; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030461904; 3030461904
• Related ISBNs: 3030461890; 9783030461898
• Notes: Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 01, 2020).
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