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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... capacity for literary experience ( and for our experience of art in general , perhaps ) , by identifying something it calls narrative or storytelling or literary activity more generally . It then tries to give an explanation for how ...
... capacity for culture arose . I will show how some of these more general arguments are consistent with our storytelling practices . My subject , therefore , is not the origin of storytelling but its psycho- logical and biological ...
... capacity to repel or escape harm is greater than the higher risk of being attacked if instead you attempt to prepare ... capacities even at a greater risk of harm ; the fact that you are putting yourself at risk signals these greater ...
Inhalt
Signaling | 75 |
Storytellers and Their Relation to Stories | 125 |
Vindication and Vindictiveness | 155 |
Urheberrecht | |
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