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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... sense of the social world . Comeuppance begins with an exploration of the appeal of gossip and ends with an account of how we can think about characters and care about them as much as about persons we know to be real . We praise a ...
... sense of the puzzle of narrative interest , by which I 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 ...
... sense of putting it all together in the mind . Kant's idea that aesthetics derives from the free - play of nonteleo- logical judgment may be the culmination of an attitude toward fiction or discursive narrative that I am setting aside ...
... sense that identification means something like imagining 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 ...
... sense that we are anywhere ? If vicarious experience is irreducible , our own presence and our attitudes toward ourselves become a much less important feature of the situation . We forget the apparatus of representation as much as we ...
Inhalt
Signaling | 75 |
Storytellers and Their Relation to Stories | 125 |
Vindication and Vindictiveness | 155 |
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