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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... possible ? What must we be like that storytelling is a human universal ? ( It is a human universal , but even if it weren't , it's certainly a widespread predilection among humans , and its explanation would cast light on the array of ...
... possible . Well , what does make dramatic illusion possible ? What grip does the fictional have on us , and why ? By fictional I'll usually mean “ nonactual , ” a term meant to apply both to purely fictional figures , who never ...
... possible . What do you say ? ( McCarthy 1998 : 252 ) Each of these suggestions , each of these hypotheticals— “ Anything is possible " -is made impossible through its utterance . A basic rule of competent narrative is that any spelled ...
Inhalt
Signaling | 75 |
Storytellers and Their Relation to Stories | 125 |
Vindication and Vindictiveness | 155 |
Urheberrecht | |
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