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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... emotional responses to blameworthy ( and praiseworthy ) actions . Evolution there- fore endowed us with these emotional responses , these desires to make mad the guilty . But we wish to appall the free as well - that is ( not per- haps ...
... emotional response may differ from the emotions we're responding to . We may know more or dif- ferent things than the object of our emotion . We may see a man asleep in a field about to be trod on by a horse , and although he is asleep ...
... emotionally to costly signals , and our emotions can be , but need not be , the same as the signalers ' . The emotional concomitant of our strong reciprocity is the emotional experience that we have in expe- riencing narrative ...
Inhalt
Signaling | 75 |
Storytellers and Their Relation to Stories | 125 |
Vindication and Vindictiveness | 155 |
Urheberrecht | |
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