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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... imitation itself . I will therefore argue against Aristotle's view of imitation as the most foundational category for drama . Aristotle saw imitation as an original propensity in humans : we learn by imitating , and take an interest in ...
... imitation , whereby we imitate the ac- tion our guides have performed for us . No doubt such imitation is part of the penumbra of our response to performance - from playing the air guitar to using body English to try to keep a ball fair ...
... imitation than to the pleasure of interested observa- tion of what by its nature is often unobserved . Conceptually prior to imitation is tracking or monitoring the agent or thing to be imitated . By tracking I mean perceiving an action ...
Inhalt
Signaling | 75 |
Storytellers and Their Relation to Stories | 125 |
Vindication and Vindictiveness | 155 |
Urheberrecht | |
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