Violence in Literature: An Evolutionary Perspective

Today the lie eats and drinks at our table, but it is a degraded lie, which limits itself to distorting or inverting the elements of the general narrative, to deceive or delude. Literary invention is translated into those fictions or characters capable of freeing everyday morals.

Violence in Literature: An Evolutionary Perspective

People read literature because they want to understand their own experience and the experience of others. Literature contains much violence because violence reveals the underlying conflicts in all social relationships. Evolutionary psychology offers the best...