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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... describes as involving suspense or dramatic irony or some sense of relevant knowledge that we have but that the ... describes a mode of vol- unteered feeling in his account of sympathy in the Theory of Moral Sen- timents ( 2004 ) , when ...
... describes “ the sort of agency we would naturally want to ally ourselves with " as " power- ful , generous , and resourceful . " He doesn't say why we have such a default interest , though , nor does he follow up on the idea of our ...
... describes such a moment in Malone Dies , where one char- acter waits while another read the letter she has written him : " While he read Moll held a little aloof , with downcast eyes , saying to herself , Now he's at the part where ...
Inhalt
Signaling | 75 |
Storytellers and Their Relation to Stories | 125 |
Vindication and Vindictiveness | 155 |
Urheberrecht | |
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