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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... evolutionary biology are as beautiful , striking , subtle , and sur- prising as any of the big ideas in philosophy and literary theory over the last generation . But the people tempted to apply evolutionary psychol- ogy to the ...
... evolutionary psychology arguments that see such an in- terplay . But Gould has been a whipping boy for the project of evolutionary psychology ( see in particular Joseph Carroll's mean - spirited and red - bait- ing attack [ 2004 : 227 ...
... evolutionary psy- chology : " The ' ultimate ' cause of [ Jones's ] behavior is his wanting to maximize his contribution to the gene pool ” ( p . 4 ) . For Fodor , hostile as he rightly is to the kinds of arguments that Steven Pinker ...
Inhalt
Signaling | 75 |
Storytellers and Their Relation to Stories | 125 |
Vindication and Vindictiveness | 155 |
Urheberrecht | |
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