Vanity Fea

Dear Alice Andrews:
I just read your call for papers for THE EVOLUTIONARY REVIEW on the Psyart list, and I have a mind to contributing, if possible, with a review (an "evolutionary review", mind!) of an "evolutionary" novel, the masterful best-seller THIS THING OF DARKNESS, by Harry Thompson. This is a novel on Charles Darwin's Beagle voyage, seen mainly from the viewpoint of Captain Fitzroy, and evolution is also a major theme in the novel, not just in my critical perspective on it. I propose to deal with evolution from a narratological viewpoint —after all evolution is a process which needs narratives in order to represent it, and the roles and modes of these narratives should be examined. I propose to focus on what I call "narrative anchoring" or the nesting of narratives inside wider narratives, e.g. human narratives within biological or geological ones. This novel offers a fitting opportunity, and, as to anchoring, it also belongs to the sea novel genre of Patrick O'Brien et al.! A must-read, incidentally. Please tell me whether you would be happy with a contribution along those lines. The paper wouldn't be too long. By the way, since you mention Facebook—I've also written on blogs from an evolutionary viewpoint... but basta—let's not spread too much on this sheet!
Jose Angel García Landa
University of Zaragoza
http://unizar.academia.edu/Jos%C3%A9AngelGarc%C3%ADaLanda