Vol 6.2, Fall 2022

Edited by

Joseph Carroll
University of Missouri, St. Louis

Mathias Clasen
Aarhus University

Emelie Jonsson
The University of Tromsø

Articles

Horror Manga: An Evolutionary Literary Perspective

Adam C. Davis

Two Servants, One Master: The Common Acoustic Origins of the Divergent Communicative Media of Music and Speech

Nicholas Bannan

Courtliness as Morality of Modernity in Norse Romance

Mads Larsen

Evolution, “Pseudo-science,” and Satire: Edith Wharton’s “The Descent of Man”

Judith P. Saunders

Review Essays

Ancient Voices, Contemporary Practice, and Human Musicality

Nicholas Bannan

Narrative Theory and Neuroscience: Why Human Nature Matters

Joseph Carroll

What Nature Gave Us: Steven Pinker on the Rules of Reason

Geoffrey Galt Harpham

Book Reviews

Steven Brown. The Unification of the Arts: A Framework for Understanding What the Arts Share and Why.

Reviewed by Aaron Kozbelt

Mathias Clasen. A Very Nervous Person’s Guide to Horror Movies.

Reviewed by Coltan Scrivner

James E. Cutting. Movies on our Minds: The Evolution of Cinematic Engagement.

Reviewed by Marc Hye-Knudsen

Jonathan Gottschall. The Story Paradox: How our Love of Storytelling Builds Societies and Tears Them Down.

Reviewed by Tom Dolack

Emelie Jonsson. The Early Evolutionary Imagination: Literature and Human Nature.

Reviewed by Judith P. Saunders

J. L. Modern. Neuromatic; or, a Particular History of Religion and the Brain.

Reviewed by Rami Gabriel

Article Reviews

Audiovisual Media

Jens Kjeldgaard-Christiansen

Imagination

Valerie van Mulukom

Law

Bret Rappaport

Literature

Mads Larsen

Music

Nicholas Bannan, Steven Jan

Neuroaesthetics

Aaron Kozbelt

Paleoaesthetics

Dahlia W. Zaidel

Politics and Ideology

Lene Aarøe

Popular Culture

Catherine Salmon, Rebecca L. Burch