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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... 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 argument relies on certain new ideas in evolutionary ...
... a mate , a parent , a child — the truth or gossip that we learn about them may be emotionally gripping . The question whom to trust may be another important source of our anxiety about what narratives tell , an anxiety 10 Comeuppance.
... tell , an anxiety that fiction can recruit . This argument might even account for our interest in narrative itself as opposed to the bottom line or ending . Narrative explains actions and allows for considerable subtlety in our judgment ...
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Inhalt
Signaling | 75 |
Storytellers and Their Relation to Stories | 125 |
Vindication and Vindictiveness | 155 |
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