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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... thing as true altruism. This thesis became dominant partly because no evolutionary accounts seemed able to explain how true altruism could evolve. But now such accounts have been given. Darwin himself had proposed a way for altruism to ...
... Under- standing the various things that coalesce in storytelling and story - attending should affect our description of much wider cultural phenomena . To put it more modestly , perhaps , our practices of narrative Introduction 3.
... M. de Norpois , of whom we learn that " the services he performed constituted not an alien- ation but a fructification of a part of his credit " ( Proust 2.292 ) . On the Hobbesian view there is no such thing as 4 Comeuppance.
... thing as true altruism . This thesis became dominant partly because no evolutionary accounts seemed able to explain how true altruism could evolve . But now such ac- counts have been given . Darwin himself had proposed a way for ...
... things that narratives do that appeal to the cooperative principle central to my ar- gument . My hope in this book , which is very different from earlier attempts to apply evolutionary psychology to literature , is to give an account ...
Inhalt
Signaling | 75 |
Storytellers and Their Relation to Stories | 125 |
Vindication and Vindictiveness | 155 |
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