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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... persons we know to be real . We praise a storyteller who contrives a happy or at least an appropriate ending , and fault the writer who refuses us one . Flesch uses Darwinian theory to show how fiction satisfies our desire to see the ...
... derived from love itself , from the need to represent 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 ,
... that being able to learn through the experiences that others narrate is essential to hu- man adaptation in a highly various and tricky world . Narration can effi- ciently show what a person or group of people have 8 Comeuppance.
... person or group of people have done and how and why they have done it , and can show that these things are causally linked . Furthermore , narratives are repositories of information , of knowl- edge that belongs to a group or population ...
... person the decision to trust another will depend on that person's innate propensity and experience , and on the more or less obvious qualities in the candidate for trust . Is he lean and hungry or fat and jovial ? Since there may be no ...
Inhalt
Signaling | 75 |
Storytellers and Their Relation to Stories | 125 |
Vindication and Vindictiveness | 155 |
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