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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... 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 selected for during what's called the Environment of Evolutionary ...
... 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 se- lected for during what's called the Environment of ...
... Identification I too also want to give an explanation based on some recent ideas in the- oretical biology . I hope its elegance may recommend it , and may help with an understanding of how and why humans should have such a powerful ...
... identification , by which we supposedly identify with the protagonist . Once the word takes hold people have a vague sense that identification means something like imagining ourselves in the protagonist's situation , even imagining that ...
... identification with groups or clans we belong to , as though such identi- fication had explanatory value . This version of identification essentially derives from the second aspect of imitation , whereby we imitate the ac- tion our ...
Inhalt
Signaling | 75 |
Storytellers and Their Relation to Stories | 125 |
Vindication and Vindictiveness | 155 |
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