Comeuppance: Costly Signaling, Altruistic Punishment, and Other Biological Components of FictionHarvard University Press, 31 de març 2009 - 264 pàgines 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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... evolutionary psychology into literary studies , creating a new theory of fiction in which form and content flawlessly intermesh . Fiction , Flesch contends , gives us our most powerful way of making sense of the social world ...
... evolutionary psychology to try to analyze some of the biological conditions of possibility of narrative and in particular of fiction. I, too, am suspicious of evolutionary psychology. I would be glad to think, therefore, that the ...
... Evolutionary Adaptation, or EEA. The question such an approach seeks to answer is this: why did storytelling (and its necessary complement, story-attending, being an audience for a story) evolve? The problem with this way of framing the ...
... evolutionary accounts seemed able to explain how true altruism could evolve. But now such accounts have been given. Darwin himself had proposed a way for altruism to evolve through the mechanism of group selection. Groups with altruists ...
... evolutionary psychology to try to analyze some of the biological conditions of possibility of narrative and in particular of fiction . I , too , am suspicious of evolutionary psychology . I would be glad to think , therefore , that the ...
Continguts
Signaling | 75 |
Storytellers and Their Relation to Stories | 125 |
Vindication and Vindictiveness | 155 |
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