Comeuppance: Costly Signaling, Altruistic Punishment, and Other Biological Components of FictionHarvard University Press, 31.03.2009 - 264 Seiten With Comeuppance, William Flesch delivers the freshest, most generous thinking about the novel since Walter Benjamin wrote on the storyteller and Wayne C. Booth on the rhetoric of fiction. In clear and engaging prose, Flesch integrates evolutionary psychology into literary studies, creating a new theory of fiction in which form and content flawlessly intermesh. |
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... evolutionary psychology into literary studies , creating a new theory of fiction in which form and content flawlessly intermesh . Fiction , Flesch contends , gives us our most powerful way of making sense of the social world ...
... evolution of cooperation,” which provides the insights that are central to this book. Every book testifies to the evolution of cooperation. It does so officially in some of its paratextual apparatus: Dedication, Acknowledgments, Notes ...
... Evolutionary Adaptation, or EEA. The question such an approach seeks to answer is this: why did storytelling (and its necessary complement, story-attending, being an audience for a story) evolve? The problem with this way of framing the ...
... Preface Introduction 1 How Could an Interest in Fiction Have Evolved ? 2 Signaling 3 Storytellers and Their Relation to Stories 4 Vindication and Vindictiveness Coda References Notes Index ix 1 7 75 125 155 182 187 203 245.
... evolutionary psychology and in the coevolution of species and culture. I will look at some recent accounts of the evolution of altruism and in particular of the oxymoronic form of altruism called altruistic punishment (punishment that ...
Inhalt
Signaling | 75 |
Storytellers and Their Relation to Stories | 125 |
Vindication and Vindictiveness | 155 |
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