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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... readers volunteer affect . What good storytellers do , in one way or another , is to get us emotionally committed to ... reading it's a matter of a reader's strictly profitless satisfaction or self - satisfaction ( if the reader wins ) ...
... readers root for George Vavasour and only later do we come to see the virtues of John Gray ( in Can You Forgive Her ... reader when he finds such a virtue carried to such an extent without seeming to be unnatural . To draw the picture of ...
... reading the Zahavis ( 1997 ) is like , strangely enough perhaps , the plea- sure I take from reading Maurice Blanchot ( 1983 ) . At the end of his early story " L'idylle , " the protagonist who has gone through horrendous frus- tration ...
Inhalt
Signaling | 75 |
Storytellers and Their Relation to Stories | 125 |
Vindication and Vindictiveness | 155 |
Urheberrecht | |
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