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. |
Im Buch
Ergebnisse 1-5 von 90
... Contents Preface Introduction 1 How Could an Interest in Fiction Have Evolved ? 2 Signaling 3 Storytellers and Their Relation to Stories 4 Vindication and Vindictiveness Coda References Notes Index ix 1 7 75 125 155 182 187 203 245.
... interest in what happens to nonexistent beings. My argument relies on certain new ideas in evolutionary psychology and in the coevolution of species and culture. I will look at some recent accounts of the evolution of altruism and in ...
... interest is a side effect . I disagree with this claim as well . Under- standing the various things that coalesce in storytelling and story - attending should affect our description of much wider cultural phenomena . To put it more ...
... interest in what happens to non- existent beings . My argument relies on certain new ideas in evolutionary psychology and in the coevolution of species and culture . I will look at some recent accounts of the evolution of altruism and ...
... interest in fictional characters , that is , in other humans so genetically unrelated to us ( see O'Gorman , Wilson , and Miller 2005 ) as not to exist ? What would make us care about fiction ? How do the gen- eral parameters required ...
Inhalt
Signaling | 75 |
Storytellers and Their Relation to Stories | 125 |
Vindication and Vindictiveness | 155 |
Andere Ausgaben - Alle anzeigen
Comeuppance: Costly Signaling, Altruistic Punishment, and Other Biological ... William Flesch Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2007 |
Comeuppance: Costly Signaling, Altruistic Punishment, and Other Biological ... William Flesch Keine Leseprobe verfügbar - 2009 |