![]() The Professor in the Cage: Why Men Fight and Why We Like to Watch (2015).The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make us Human (2012) ISBN 978-0547391403.Graphing Jane Austen: The Evolutionary Basis of Literary Meaning (2012).Evolution, Literature and Film: A Reader (2010) – co-edited with Brian Boyd and Joseph Carroll.Literature, Science and a New Humanities (2008).The Rape of Troy: Evolution, Violence and the World of Homer (2008).The Literary Animal: Evolution and the Nature of Narrative (2005) – edited with David Sloan Wilson.This led to letters to the editor by Gottschall and Steven Pinker, whose work was also sharply criticized in the review. Kirkus Reviews credited Gottschall with providing "fresh insights about the ways we understand reality." The book also received a harshly critical review by Timothy D. In 2021, Gottschall published The Story Paradox: How Our Love of Storytelling Builds Societies and Tears Them Down. ![]() He uses this experience as a way to explore the evolutionary psychology of violence, masculinity, and sports. In the book The Professor in the Cage: Why Men Fight and Why We Like to Watch (Penguin 2015), Gottschall describes the three years he spent at a Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) gym trying to learn how to fight. The Storytelling Animal was a New York Times Editor's Choice selection and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. A review by The Virginian-Pilot said "Gottschall assesses and accounts for that powerful narrative attraction in a compelling chronicle of his own.and it is a certifiable knee-slap, three-pipe, blue-moon ripsnorter. Gottschall's book, The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human (Houghton Mifflin 2012), is about the evolutionary mystery of storytelling-about the way we shape stories, and stories shape us. Literature, Science and a New Humanities advocates that the humanities, and literary studies in particular, need to avail themselves of quantitative and objective methods of inquiry as well as the traditional qualitative and subjective, if they are to produce cumulative, progressive knowledge, and provides a number of case studies that apply quantitative methods to fairy and folk tale around the world to answer questions about human universals and differences. He argues that this reflects an actual shortage of women in ancient Greek society driven by female infanticide and the practice of concentrating enslaved women in the households of powerful men, who were treated as the masters exclusive sexual property. Gottschall argues that nearly all of the central violent conflicts in the epics originate in conflicts over women. His work The Rape of Troy: Evolution, Violence and the World of Homer analyzes violence in the Homeric epic poems Iliad and Odyssey through the lens of evolutionary psychology. His work was featured in an article in Science describing literature and evolution. Gottschall was profiled by The New York Times and The Chronicle of Higher Education. He completed his PhD in English at State University of New York at Binghamton, where he worked under David Sloan Wilson. He is the author or editor of eight books. He holds the title of Distinguished Fellow in the English department of Washington & Jefferson College in Pennsylvania. Jonathan Gottschall (born September 20, 1972) is an American literary scholar specializing in literature and evolution. ![]() ![]() State University of New York at Binghamton
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