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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... minds that have evolved to meet biological constraints , the literature described by the best literary theory and philosophy seems impossible . The best literary critics seem to agree with the general assumption of evolutionary ...
... mind have evolved to do to be able and eager to tell and hear stories ? In what follows I will give an account of the possible origin of fiction — of our absorbed and anxious interest in what happens to non- existent beings . My ...
... minds of entrenched skeptics in greater and greater numbers . They sum- marize much of this work in their 1997 book . Although the Zahavis are skeptical of group selection ( and therefore of genuine altruism ) , they give an ...
... mind . ) These capacities and the evolutionary problems they solve not only make nar- rative possible ; they also make some kinds of narrative inevitable.2 Why do we willingly suspend disbelief , if we do ? In Samuel Taylor Co ...
... mind's construction in the face , previous dealings and reputation will also be of great importance . Reputation will often be a matter of narrative , and since the people you may or may not trust can be of great emotional importance to ...
Inhalt
Signaling | 75 |
Storytellers and Their Relation to Stories | 125 |
Vindication and Vindictiveness | 155 |
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