Comeuppance Costly Signaling, Altruistic Punishment, and Other Biological Components of Fiction

Name: Comeuppance Costly Signaling, Altruistic Punishment, and Other Biological Components of Fiction
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ISBN: 9780674032286

ISBN-10: 0674032284

ISBN-13: 9780674032286

Edition: 2007

Authors: William Flesch

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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.Fiction, Flesch contends, gives us our most powerful way of making sense of the social world. Comeuppance begins with an exploration of the appeal of gossip and ends with an account of how we can think about characters and care about them as much as about persons we know to be real. We praise a storyteller who contrives a happy or at…

Book details

List price: $33.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 3/31/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 264
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.858
Language: English

William Flesch is Professor of English Literature at Brandeis University and author of Generosity and the Limits of Authority.