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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... kind of learning that we attain in hearing truthful narra- tives . If such learning is genuinely indispensable , our instinct to learn this way must be a product of evolution . Evolutionary psychologists have quite reasonably said that ...
... kind of happy by - product of truthful narra- tive ( Pinker 1997 ) or indeed a further pedagogical adaptation , enabling individuals to understand and sympathize with the variety of human types and interests ( Joseph Carroll 2004 ) .4 I ...
... kind of pleasurable and perhaps useful practice of judgment , with the judgment so practiced regarded as an end in itself , I will offer an account oriented toward human sociality and not pure judgment . ( I mean judgment here in the ...
... kind of predication : something is identified as something else , as a kind of thing . Thus Hazlitt ( 1913 ) observes that it is the " abstract- edness of our feelings in youth that ( so to speak ) identifies us with na- ture , " that ...
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Signaling | 75 |
Storytellers and Their Relation to Stories | 125 |
Vindication and Vindictiveness | 155 |
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