Article: Four ways to skin a cat: evolution and literary study.(Responses)

Some disciplines are fortunate to find expositors who are as erudite as eloquent. Evolution had its Darwin, behaviourist psychology, had Skinner, transformational linguistics had Chomsky--and Darwinian literary studies has Joseph Carroll. For almost two decades, he has done as much as anyone else to bring the discipline into being, then into focus. "An Evolutionary Paradigm for Literary Study" is but the latest effort to forge a consilient paradigm of literary study. In the spirit and the letter of the essay, I will therefore briefly outline several research avenues for literary study it touches on.

1. The Turing Test

"Underlying this inquiry is the ...

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