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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... means: because it provides an advantage in the competition for fitness or reproductive success). I don't think this account of literature as a single, evolved phenomenon or behavior is true. A capacity for narrative may be a useful ...
... means : because it provides an advantage in the competition for fitness or reproductive success ) . I don't think this account of literature as a single , evolved phenomenon or behavior is true . A capacity for narrative may be a useful ...
... mean anxiety on behalf of and about the motives , actions , and 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 ...
... mean " nonactual , " a term meant to apply both to purely fictional figures , who never underwent the incidents being narrated of them and who do not exist , and to figures who may , in fact , have expe- rienced and had a hand in ...
... mean narratives that the audience , readers , or spectators know not to be happening , not to be true , and not to be relevant to themselves personally . I think that Joseph Carroll ( 2004 ) may be How Could an Interest in Fiction Have ...
Inhalt
Signaling | 75 |
Storytellers and Their Relation to Stories | 125 |
Vindication and Vindictiveness | 155 |
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