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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... better off we are. This is the cynical view the narrator in Proust takes of M. de Norpois, of whom we learn that “the services he performed constituted not an alienation but a fructification of a part of his credit” (Proust 2.292). On ...
... better , like mirrors shining back each other's love . -Purgatorio , XV , 61-63 , 72-75 The vanity in the desire to be seen as having been freely granted the evident signs of the predilection of the one we love is in fact derived from ...
... better off we are . This is the cynical view the narrator in Proust takes of M. de Norpois , of whom we learn that " the services he performed constituted not an alien- ation but a fructification of a part of his credit " ( Proust 2.292 ) ...
... better as a group than groups without . But it was shown in the 1960s that , in fact , such groups would be too easily infiltrated or invaded by nonaltruists -— that is , that group boundaries were too porous — to make group selection ...
... better learning its lessons dispas- sionately . Passionate interest — anxiety about unlikely dangers and grati- tude for implausible solutions — is the least reliable mode of curiosity and therefore unlikely to have evolved as a way to ...
Inhalt
Signaling | 75 |
Storytellers and Their Relation to Stories | 125 |
Vindication and Vindictiveness | 155 |
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