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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... suggest the possibility of three basic figures (though there may be more or fewer than three characters who instantiate them): an innocent, someone who exploits that innocent, and someone else who seeks to punish the exploiter. Humans ...
... suggest that it is these that most comport with what evolved in the EEA and most resonate in our own enjoyment of the arts (E. O. Wilson 1998: 244). Criticism of this sort, from Vladimir Propp to Christopher Booker's mammoth work Seven ...
... suggest the possibility of three basic figures ( though there may be more or fewer than three characters who instantiate them ) : an innocent , someone who exploits that innocent , and someone else who seeks to punish the ex- ploiter ...
... suggest that it is these that most comport with what evolved in the EEA and most resonate in our own enjoyment of the arts ( E. O. Wilson 1998 : 244 ) . Criticism of this sort , from Vladimir Propp to Christopher Booker's mammoth work ...
... an- swer to this question ? I'll suggest a broad answer about why we might be interested in fiction , partly by way of an exposition of the theory of costly signaling or the handicap principle . ( As a Introduction 5.
Inhalt
Signaling | 75 |
Storytellers and Their Relation to Stories | 125 |
Vindication and Vindictiveness | 155 |
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