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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... capacity for literary experience (and for our experience of art in general, perhaps), by identifying something it calls narrative or storytelling or literary activity more generally. It then tries to give an explanation for how such ...
... capacity for and tendency toward altruistic punishment seems to me the central human psychological phenomenon in one aspect of our interest in narrative: our desire to see the good rewarded and the evil punished, whether they exist or ...
... capacity for literary experience ( and for our experience of art in general , perhaps ) , by identifying something it calls narrative or storytelling or literary activity more generally . It then tries to give an explanation for how ...
... capacity for culture arose . I will show how some of these more general arguments are consistent with our storytelling practices . My subject , therefore , is not the origin of storytelling but its psycho- logical and biological ...
... capacity for and delight in narrative . I'll begin by asking and trying to answer the questions : What makes us take an interest in fictional characters , that is , in other humans so genetically unrelated to us ( see O'Gorman , Wilson ...
Inhalt
Signaling | 75 |
Storytellers and Their Relation to Stories | 125 |
Vindication and Vindictiveness | 155 |
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