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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... ourselves for our genes, for our kin, for example, and according to degrees of kinship (Hamilton 1963; E. O. Wilson 1975), We also make implicit, genetically programmed behavioral contracts with others to take risks on one another's ...
... ourselves to ourselves and to others as loved by the person we love so much . -Le Côte de Guermantes , 2. 460–461 Introduction Our practices do not merely exploit our natures ,
... ourselves for our genes , for our kin , for example , and according to degrees of kinship ( Hamilton 1963 ; E. O. Wilson 1975 ) , We also make implicit , genetically programmed behavioral contracts with others to take risks on one an ...
... ourselves in the protagonist's situation , even imagining that we are the protagonist . ( Samuel Johnson already had a sharply defined sense of such imagination . ) 8 Identification as it is now used bears the same relation to sympathy ...
... or screen is there where we are ; the helpless hero in the dragon's grip is not . As Johnson insisted , we imagine ourselves neither in Rome nor in Alexandria.15 And yet How Could an Interest in Fiction Have Evolved ? 15.
Inhalt
Signaling | 75 |
Storytellers and Their Relation to Stories | 125 |
Vindication and Vindictiveness | 155 |
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