Skórczewski, Dariusz2018-06-122018-06-122017Colloquia Litteraria, 2017, nr 1, s. 21-41.1896-3455http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12153/285ORCID: 0000-0001-7748-7775The paper adumbrates Joseph Carroll's evolutionist literary theory positioning it against the developments in literary studies and humanities after postmodernism. The author discusses the ambivalece present in Carroll's neo-darwinian project, its possible power to revert the decline of literary studies through a return to tangibility and certainty after the dominance of postmodern speculative theories, but also its reductionist and anti-axiological stance being a peril to the advancement of literary studies. The paper invites further discussion on the prospects of trans-disciplinary alliance between humanities and biological sciences in relation to the aesthetic specificity of literature.enUznanie autorstwa-Użycie niekomercyjne-Bez utworów zależnych 3.0 Polskahttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/pl/history of literatureneodarwinismevolutionist literary theoryCharles Darwininfo:eu-repo/semantics/article