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Reading Human Nature: Literary Darwinism in Theory and Practice by Joseph Carroll (review)
- Journal of the Midwest Modern Language Association
- Midwest Modern Language Association
- Volume 46, Number 1, Spring 2013
- pp. 97-100
- 10.1353/mml.2013.0005
- Review
- Additional Information
Carroll provides thoughtful answers throughout his latest collection to some of literary criticism's woes. His purpose is to provide a large theory, to provoke thought. However, Carroll and LD remain unpersuasive in several areas, even to a friendly reader.