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Bred in Captivity: Stories in Their Natural and Not-So-Natural Habitats

Submitted by Cremisi on Fri, 04/15/2011 - 4:33pm

Evolution and Literature Web Paper 3

Any lover of books can relate to the disturbance and slight disgust one feels when a favorite piece of literature is adapted into a movie. As we have discussed in “The Stories of Evolution and the Evolution of Stories”, when a viewer sees a beloved story adapted into a film, the initial reaction is that the tale has either been whittled down, shaven, or catastrophically ruined by the cinema. The majority of the people in class agreed that there is a certain “mindlessness”--a sluggish feeling of less processing and activity in the mind--when it came to viewing a film.

The Women of the Plague

Submitted by tangerines on Fri, 04/15/2011 - 4:04pm

Evolution and Literature Web Paper 3

EvoLit Web Event 3

Pestilence

Chocolat can Inspire Change

Submitted by Poppyflower on Fri, 04/15/2011 - 3:48pm

Evolution and Literature Web Paper 3

Adaptation as Deconstruction

Submitted by Lynn on Fri, 04/15/2011 - 3:41pm

Evolution and Literature Web Paper 3

Avery Larson

Adaptation as Deconstruction

A Critique of the Criticism of Film Adaptations

Submitted by the.believer on Fri, 04/15/2011 - 3:21pm

Evolution and Literature Web Paper 3

Jenny Cai

Stories of Evolution and Evolution of Stories

Professor Paul Grobstein

April 15, 2011

EXPERIENCE VERSUS MEANING

Submitted by KT on Fri, 04/15/2011 - 3:09pm

Evolution and Literature Web Paper 3

Tick Tock Tick Tock...Freeze: Time Orientation and The Plague

Submitted by ems8140 on Fri, 04/15/2011 - 3:02pm

Evolution and Literature Web Paper 3

Temporal perspective, the unconscious way in which people incorporate time into their lives through the past, present and future (Boyd & Zimbardo, 2005), plays an active role in Camus’ The Plague. To expand on one of my previous postings for my Story of Evolution & the Evolution of Stories class, the impact of subjective time on the town of Oran and its inhabitants in this novel will be explored.