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Article: Human nature's human nature.(Responses)
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Joseph Carroll's overview of an evolutionary paradigm for literary study is so comprehensive and lucid that there isn't very much I would care to criticize. But I would like to expand its reaches. The whole notion of "human nature" has had a fairly bad history, exploited as it has been to reinforce conservative and reactionary programs to force human beings into conformity with transient social imperatives. Homer and Nature may have been the same for Alexander Pope, and Jon Gottschall does very well with his literary analyses of The Iliad in terms of the updated human nature that has been so improved upon by biology and neuroscience, but we obviously will continue to need ...
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Article: OBIT - HUNDLEY, JOSEPH CARROLL
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...Joseph Carroll Hundley, 52, of Martinsville, Va., died Saturday, January 14, 2006. Funeral services will be held Saturday, January 21, 2006, at 11 a.m., Mass of Resurrection at St. Joseph's Catholic Church, Martinsville, Va.
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