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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... means " Presents expected . " 6. The costliness of signals means that there is a continuum between signal and referent . If the appropriate response to receiving an ex- pensive gift is to give an expensive gift in return , the signal ...
... means he wins Hippolyta . The response that she observes we observe as well - since that's what it means when something is public knowledge , available to observation . And we there- fore too are won to Theseus , at length . Won to him ...
... means a disposition to help the innocent , to punish the guilty , and to reward those who help the innocent and punish the guilty , including those who are guilty of not having a disposition to cooperate . Innocence is itself a ...
Inhalt
Signaling | 75 |
Storytellers and Their Relation to Stories | 125 |
Vindication and Vindictiveness | 155 |
Urheberrecht | |
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