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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... examples. That scheme, much simplified, is this: narratives tend to contain or at least to suggest the possibility of three basic figures (though there may be more or fewer than three characters who instantiate them): an innocent ...
... example he uses from Paradise Lost (the comparison of Eden to “that fair field / Of Enna, where Proserpine gathering flowers, / Herself a fairer flower, by gloomy Dis / Was gathered”) he ignores the question why Milton might be able to ...
... example, and according to degrees of kinship (Hamilton 1963; E. O. Wilson 1975), We also make implicit, genetically programmed behavioral contracts with others to take risks on one another's behalf if this improves our genetic chances ...
... examples . That scheme , much simplified , is this : narratives tend to contain or at least to suggest the possibility of three basic figures ( though there may be more or fewer than three characters who instantiate them ) : an innocent ...
... example , Brian Boyd's recent polemic in The American Scholar ; Lisa Zunshine is an eloquent exception to this rule . ) Although they would certainly not put it this way , they think they have good reasons to sup- pose that literature ...
Inhalt
Signaling | 75 |
Storytellers and Their Relation to Stories | 125 |
Vindication and Vindictiveness | 155 |
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