November 22, 2002

Applying the Concept of Evolution to Literary Studies

To the Editor:

David P. Barash and Nanelle Barash argue for the addition of biology-based criticism to the current postmodern arsenal of deconstruction, intertextuality, neohistoricism, and so on ("Evolution and Literary Criticism," The Review, October 18). The critical method that they propose would be a sort of neomodernist approach, based upon the certitudes of evolution. ...

One is reminded of the modernist certitudes of biology-based criticism during the first half of the

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