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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Costly Signaling, Altruistic Punishment, and Other Biological Components of Fiction William Flesch. altruism in general and altruistic punishment or strong reciprocity in particular might evolve as a costly signal or honest handicap ...
Costly Signaling, Altruistic Punishment, and Other Biological Components of Fiction William Flesch. the play of ... signal isn't received . Even when it is received , the costs of altruism might well outweigh the benefits of the signal ...
... cost of a signal is precisely the fact that it can go awry . Signals of disdain , for example , don't cost energy but opportunity . By put- ting yourself in harm's way you signal your ability to tolerate the risk of the harm , a signal ...
Inhalt
Signaling | 75 |
Storytellers and Their Relation to Stories | 125 |
Vindication and Vindictiveness | 155 |
Urheberrecht | |
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