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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... tend to contain or at least to 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 ...
... tend to fall prey to two kinds of reductionism when they talk about literary issues: either that literature's function is fairly simple or that it is biologically fairly trivial. The first claim, naturally, leads to more analysis than ...
... tend to contain or at least to 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 ...
... tend to be extremely reductive . ( See , for example , Brian Boyd's recent polemic in The American Scholar ; Lisa Zunshine is an eloquent exception to this rule . ) Although they would certainly not put it this way , they think they ...
... tend to fall prey to two kinds of reductionism when they talk about literary issues : either that litera- ture's function is fairly simple or that it is biologically fairly trivial . The first claim , naturally , leads to more analysis ...
Inhalt
Signaling | 75 |
Storytellers and Their Relation to Stories | 125 |
Vindication and Vindictiveness | 155 |
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