Literacy Criticism And Reading Response Essay

To be entirely honest, I really enjoyed reading “Evolution and Literacy Criticism” by Professor David P. Barash and Nanelle Barash (student). At first, I thought it was going to be very long and painful to read due to its length and terminology. After reading the opening paragraph, I knew I was going to be into it. Science is one of my strong areas, whereas literature, let alone criticizing it, is a far stretch from a strong area. But somehow, the article related the literature and science in a way that some meanings of literature made sense to me, rather than total gibberish. The professor and his student made some fascinating insights that were very understandable. For example, their thesis, “It is equally likely that a good deal of literature (just as life itself) makes more sense in the light of evolution,” made me think about the past …show more content…
They then became allies in the future war, which I thought was remarkable. They also included the part about Aeneas abandoning Dido, but they stated it as Aeneas’ human, biological, impulses. The authors expressed that Aeneas would be denying his son and future lineage his genetic posterity because he carries the burden of starting a new line. On another note, the authors the authors claimed that one of the many key notions of literature is believability. I entirely agree with them because most humans don’t read novels that do not have characters that they can relate to on a biological level. Unless, of course, it’s on something informational on a non-life form such as the Grand Canyon. If you think about it, probably four out of five bestselling books have human or human-like character involved in the plot. Literature leaves a lot to the imagination where you have tons of unique textures you can create by