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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... Interest in Fiction Have Evolved ? Interest and Learning Why do we care about what happens in a fictional representation , to fic- tional characters , in a fictional world ? What makes it possible for us to have a vivid emotional ...
... interest in others comes before any identification with those in whom we are interested ; and , second , that such an interest will turn out to imply an interest in narrative , that is , in what others have done and suffered and in the ...
... interest in the non- actual ( since past actions make claims on a present response ) and in the actors who involve themselves in adjusting the outcomes of nonactual events through strong reciprocation , that is , through rewarding those ...
Inhalt
Signaling | 75 |
Storytellers and Their Relation to Stories | 125 |
Vindication and Vindictiveness | 155 |
Urheberrecht | |
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