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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... with nimble intelligence and provides wide reference to stories both familiar and little known . Flesch has given us a book that is sure to claim a central place in the discussion of literature and the humanities . 2 Comeuppance.
... claim, naturally, leads to more analysis than the second and is therefore more widely represented in evolutionary ... claims about narrative and narrative situations, they won't be about archetypal stories or patterns of storytelling ...
... claims . If literature is the product of human minds that have evolved to meet biological constraints , the literature described by the best literary theory and philosophy seems impossible . The best literary critics seem to agree with ...
... claim , naturally , leads to more analysis than the second and is therefore more widely represented in evolutionary ... claims about nar- rative and narrative situations , they won't be about archetypal stories or patterns of ...
... claim for the meaning of art and literature because they have got religion , what Wilson's bitter and bitterly attacked antagonist Stephen Jay Gould called Darwinian fundamentalism . Charles Darwin was not such a fundamentalist , as The ...
Inhalt
Signaling | 75 |
Storytellers and Their Relation to Stories | 125 |
Vindication and Vindictiveness | 155 |
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