Article: Brief introduction to Joseph Carroll and the special issue of Style: an evolutionary paradigm for literary study.

In an article in the New York Times (Nov 6, 2005), a reporter named T. J. Max asked the famous founder of sociobiology and author of Consilience, The Unity of Knowledge, Edward O. Wilson, to "assess the state of the revolution he helped touch off. How far had sociologists and psychologists gone in folding evolutionary principles into their work? Wilson laughed and said silkily, 'Not far enough, in my opinion.' Nonetheless, Max [reported, he looked] 'forward to seeing sociobiology dust the wings of the arts--especially literature--with its magic.'" What you have in your hands, readers of Style, is a double issue, exploring the evolutionary principles Wilson mentioned, ...

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