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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... narrative , making use of anthropological as well as biological evidence on the universality of narratives and the ... narrative as a delivery system for an important and salubri- ous core of precept and doctrine . She explains how ...
... narratives tell , an anxiety that fiction can recruit . This argument might even account for our interest in narrative itself as opposed to the bottom line or ending . Narrative explains actions and allows for considerable subtlety in ...
... narrative as simply describing ge- netic strategies and tactics ) 109 but of their human ones , just as we are ge- netically disposed to do.110 I suggest the following as the conditions of possibility of the kind of in- terest in narrative ...
Inhalt
Signaling | 75 |
Storytellers and Their Relation to Stories | 125 |
Vindication and Vindictiveness | 155 |
Urheberrecht | |
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