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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... gathering flowers, / Herself a fairer flower, by gloomy Dis / Was gathered”) he ignores the question why Milton might be able to count on our emotional response to a myth conspicuously described as fictional. As I hope will become clear,
... become so emotionally absorbed in stories we know to be fictions . It is addressed especially to readers who are wary of such explanations : I am wary of them myself . Some recent ideas in evolutionary biology are as beautiful ...
... become clear , however , little that I say is necessarily in- consistent with the positive views of Wilson's school ; it's just that there is much more to be explained than those views do , and much more by way of explanation that can ...
... become a much less important feature of the situation . We forget the apparatus of representation as much as we ... becomes vivid that their eyes are not ours , and we are brought to an intense awareness of the difference between us ...
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Inhalt
Signaling | 75 |
Storytellers and Their Relation to Stories | 125 |
Vindication and Vindictiveness | 155 |
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