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Jonathan Gottschall is an American literary scholar specializing in literature and evolution. He teaches at Washington and Jefferson College in Pennsylvania. He completed graduate work in English at State University of New York at Binghamton, where he worked under David Sloan Wilson.〔 His work ''The Rape of Troy: Evolution, Violence and the World of Homer'' describes the Homeric epic poems ''Iliad'' and ''Odyssey'' in terms of evolutionary psychology, with the central violent conflicts in these works driven by the lack of young women to marry and the resulting evolutionary legacy, as opposed to the violent conflicts being driven by honor or wealth. ''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. Gottschall was profiled by the ''New York Times'' and ''The Chronicle of Higher Education.'' His work was featured in an article in ''Science'' describing literature and evolution. Gottschall's latest 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. 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. ==List of works== * ''The Literary Animal: Evolution and the Nature of Narrative'' (2005) – edited with David Sloan Wilson. ISBN 978-0810122864 * ''The Rape of Troy: Evolution, Violence and the World of Homer'' (2008) * ''Literature, Science and a New Humanities'' (2008) * ''Evolution, Literature and Film: A Reader'' (2010) – co-edited with Brian Boyd and Joseph Carroll. * ''The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make us Human'' (2012) ISBN 978-0547391403 * ''The Professor in the Cage: Why Men Fight and Why We Like to Watch'' (2015) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jonathan Gottschall」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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