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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... 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, and Works ...
... cooperation , " which provides the in- sights 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 , and ...
... cooperation among humans.1 These issues — altruism , cooperation , honest or costly signaling ( which is what the handicap principle describes and explains ) —seem to me central to an understanding of the human capacity for and delight ...
... cooperation that I argue are prominent within narrative with respect to the real event that narrative is ( for ... cooperative principle central to my ar- gument . My hope in this book , which is very different from earlier attempts to ...
... cooperation , " can help to make sense of the puzzle of narrative interest , by which I mean anxiety on behalf of and about the motives , actions , and experiences of fictional characters.1 This is a puzzle explicitly noted by Augustine ...
Inhalt
Signaling | 75 |
Storytellers and Their Relation to Stories | 125 |
Vindication and Vindictiveness | 155 |
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