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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... able to avoid the obscurities and misapplications of the notion of iden- tification . Whether or not identification gives a satisfactory account of our relations to characters in fictions , it certainly doesn't give us a full account ...
... able to pay the costs of dedicating ourselves to their catastrophic desires and actions . This relation to the costs they ad- vertise and demand from their partners is what allows us to be attracted to them , fascinated by them ...
... able to get out of the traps of their own making . A quick version of this combination is the wonderful para- graph at the end of Northanger Abbey where all is resolved . General Tilney , we are sorry to learn , has refused his consent ...
Inhalt
Signaling | 75 |
Storytellers and Their Relation to Stories | 125 |
Vindication and Vindictiveness | 155 |
Urheberrecht | |
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