I’m just having a stab at describing what ‘evolutionary poetics’ might mean. I’m paralleling it with ‘evolutionary aesthetics’ in which the attractions and repulsions, likes and dislikes, that we have with regard to the appearance of things (for example) is based upon the sensitivities we developed at some point in our evolutionary history toward stimuli which would positively or negatively affect our survival/reproduction. I am understanding ‘poetics’ as the processes by which experience is rendered in expressible form (such that it might be expressed as poetry for example). Evolutionary Poetics, therefore, might be understood as the adaptive origins of that process written into the logic of the sensorimotor systems. (maybe)
Evolutionary Poetics (take two)
The Poetics of Spice: Romantic Consumerism and the Exot
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