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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... fictional narrative can flourish . Evolutionary psychology has sought to explain fiction proper , stories frankly made up , as either a kind of happy by - product of truthful narra- tive ( Pinker 1997 ) or indeed a further pedagogical ...
... fiction because fiction always repre- sents or illustrates something else , something real : general human types ; particular human beings whom each individual consumer of the fiction understands according to his or her own family ...
Costly Signaling, Altruistic Punishment, and Other Biological Components of Fiction William Flesch. cient to gratify our anger . First , pure exposure isn't enough for narratives of the nonactual to be gratifying , not enough for fiction ...
Inhalt
Signaling | 75 |
Storytellers and Their Relation to Stories | 125 |
Vindication and Vindictiveness | 155 |
Urheberrecht | |
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