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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... idea of natural selection as a straightforward process , and can give rise to phe- nomena that can't be explained in the pure adaptationist terms that many evolutionary psychologists believe provide the only legitimate mode of ...
... idea that we prac- tice for the game of life by attending to tragedy ( Nuttall 1996 ) . I am inter- ested in a less sophisticated phenomenon , though , that of actual anxiety or suspense or relief or gratification or rage or ...
... idea that literature spreads sweetness and light just as much as its natural exemplar , the honeybee . It is consonant as well with suspicious views of the regulative functions of literature , as in some followers of Foucault . But this ...
... idea sorts well with Freud's , while Pinker's idea of pleasure in fiction as " mental cheesecake " ( 1997 ) is consistent with Plato's low valuation of its importance to human knowledge and human society . Joseph Carroll's critique of ...
... idea of imitation as the foundation of all our response to drama has had misleading consequences . It is easy to see how such a theory led to the century - old standard ( Freudian ) idea of identification , by which we supposedly ...
Continguts
Signaling | 75 |
Storytellers and Their Relation to Stories | 125 |
Vindication and Vindictiveness | 155 |
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