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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... evolutionary psychology into literary studies , creating a new theory of fiction in which form and content flawlessly intermesh . Fiction , Flesch contends , gives us our most powerful way of making sense of the social world ...
... evolutionary psychology to try to analyze some of the biological conditions of possibility of narrative and in particular of fiction. I, too, am suspicious of evolutionary psychology. I would be glad to think, therefore, that the ...
... evolutionary literary criticism. This approach accounts for our 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 ...
... evolutionary psychology and in the coevolution of species and culture. I will look at some recent accounts of the evolution of altruism and in particular of the oxymoronic form of altruism called altruistic punishment (punishment that ...
... evolutionary psychology to try to analyze some of the biological conditions of possibility of narrative and in particular of fiction . I , too , am suspicious of evolutionary psychology . I would be glad to think , therefore , that the ...
Inhalt
Signaling | 75 |
Storytellers and Their Relation to Stories | 125 |
Vindication and Vindictiveness | 155 |
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