{"title":"Title","authors":"Naomi Olson, I. Bunin","doi":"10.26613/esic-2021-frontmatter0501","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26613/esic-2021-frontmatter0501","url":null,"abstract":"Ivan Bunin and Vladimir Nabokov relocated to Western Europe to escape the nascent Bolshevik regime. A matter of survival rather than of choice, emigration for many Russian intellectuals seemed more like involuntary exile. Bunin’s Zhizn’ Arsenieva and Nabokov’s Dar both contain depictions of childhood illness in which themes of exile and identity are confronted. Illness functions symbolically in these scenes, reflecting the authors’ own experiences. This paper examines how childhood illness links as well as distinguishes these works, considering the authors as artists with unique agendas and as members of a collective community in exile. For both protagonists, illness is an unexpected voyage from the familiar world into a different realm – like exile, a terrifying and amazing journey that raises concerns about family, consciousness, identity, and mortality. Illness as metaphor occurs most often in literature in the form of terminal adult disease (Sontag). By placing illness in childhood, Bunin and Nabokov shift the symbolic emphasis from the approach of death towards one of recovery and survival. This emphasis on recovery echoes the strong sense of responsibility for the survival of the Russian literary heritage shared by the émigré community at the time. While these works are largely autobiographical, the depictions of childhood illness are aesthetically rather than factually motivated. The protagonists of Zhizn’ Arsenieva and Dar quickly return from their voyages to the “kingdom of the ill” (Sontag 3), but their experiences in sickness and recovery reveal much about their creators and their one-way journeys to the West.","PeriodicalId":36459,"journal":{"name":"Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85231215","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Evolutionary Cognitive Approach to Comparative Fascist Studies: Hypermasculinization, Supernormal Stimuli, and Conspirational Beliefs","authors":"Leonardo Ambasciano","doi":"10.26613/esic.5.1.208","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26613/esic.5.1.208","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract After summarizing Roger Griffin’s Fascism: An Introduction to Comparative Fascist Studies (2018), I describe the academic subfield of Comparative Fascist Studies (CFS). I argue that CFS could be strengthened by integrating it with cognitive science, evolutionary psychology, and religious studies. That biocultural integration would make it more effective as both a scholarly endeavour and an antifascist vaccine for democratic societies. I explain the role of traditional mass media and digital social media in the rise of dominance-style leadership and radical-right populism, construct a neurosociological revision of the CFS concept of fascism as a “political religion,” and characterize ultranationalism as a set of maladaptive supernormal stimuli. These revisions of CFS aim at providing a cross-disciplinary framework able to explain the spread of alt-right conspiracy theories online and offline.","PeriodicalId":36459,"journal":{"name":"Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture","volume":"1 1","pages":"23 - 40"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86945606","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Popular Culture","authors":"C. Salmon, R. Burch","doi":"10.26613/esic.5.1.232","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26613/esic.5.1.232","url":null,"abstract":"The article focuses on popular culture is often defined as culture based on the tastes of ordinary people rather than the elite class. Topics include the evolutionary approaches would suggest that as popular culture is a product of human nature, the some researchers highlight the ways in which aspects of popular culture can be examined as artifacts, and the adaptationist understanding of human psychology can allow for more comprehensive analysis of the products of popular culture.","PeriodicalId":36459,"journal":{"name":"Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture","volume":"1 1","pages":"149 - 152"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73376632","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reply by Rainer Reisenzein","authors":"","doi":"10.26613/esic.5.1.235","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.26613/esic.5.1.235","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":36459,"journal":{"name":"Evolutionary Studies in Imaginative Culture","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79920401","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}