Comeuppance: Costly Signaling, Altruistic Punishment, and Other Biological Components of FictionHarvard University Press, 2007 - 252 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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... Chapter 4 , which focuses on two exemplary narratives . Chapter 4 should be pretty clear even without the earlier terminological explanation that the first three chapters provide ; if you find it at all convincing you can turn to the ...
... Chapter 3 gives an account of what Philip Fisher ( 2002 ) calls " volun- teered affect " and of the relation of the storyteller or purveyor of nar- rative , to its audience . Where Chapter 1 focuses on a more or less diachronic or ...
... Chapter 1 I tried to rehearse the arguments that altruism in general and altruistic punishment in particular are costly and thus honest sig- nals of fitness , that altruism , and in particular altruistic punishment , therefore confer ...
Inhalt
Signaling | 75 |
Storytellers and Their Relation to Stories | 125 |
Vindication and Vindictiveness | 155 |
Urheberrecht | |
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