Subject: Re: Neoteny: A Scientific term for Holden?
From: Jim Rovira (jrovira@drew.edu)
Date: Sat Nov 24 2001 - 12:00:58 GMT
That's interesting...I wonder if the name "Holden" is connected to the
idea of "holding youth"?
Jim
Will Hochman wrote:
>
> According to Jeremy Campbell in Grammatical Man, a book about language
> learning, "This technique of slowing down maturity, retaining into
> grown-up life the juvenile traits of ancestral species, is called
> neoteny, a word coined in 1883. It means, literally, 'holding youth'"
> (139).
> --
> Will Hochman
>
> Assistant Professor of English
> Southern Connecticut State University
> 501 Crescent St, New Haven, CT 06515
> 203 392 5024
>
> http://www.southernct.edu/~hochman/willz.html
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