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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... 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 behavior might have been ...
... recent developments and debates in evolutionary biology are fasci- natingly beautiful , it is also true , alas , that the general run of evolution- 1 ary explanations of literature and literary experience are programmati- 1 Introduction.
... 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 behavior might have ...
... experiences of fictional characters.1 This is a puzzle explicitly noted by Augustine , and probably implicit in Plato , who didn't like fiction . Aristotle , who did , tries to solve the puzzle by invoking the concept of imitation . My ...
... able to learn through the experiences that others narrate is essential to hu- man adaptation in a highly various and tricky world . Narration can effi- ciently show what a person or group of people have 8 Comeuppance.
Inhalt
Signaling | 75 |
Storytellers and Their Relation to Stories | 125 |
Vindication and Vindictiveness | 155 |
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