Comeuppance: Costly Signaling, Altruistic Punishment, and Other Biological Components of Fiction by Flesch, William
Comeuppance: Costly Signaling, Altruistic Punishment, and Other Biological Components of Fiction by Flesch, William

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

With Comeuppance, William Flesch delivers the freshest, most generous thinking about the novel since Walter Benjamin wrote...
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Comeuppance: Costly Signaling, Altruistic Punishment, and Other Biological Components of Fiction by Flesch, William

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

$127.40
Comeuppance: Costly Signaling, Altruistic Punishment, and Other Biological Components of Fiction by Flesch, William

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

$127.40
Author: William Flesch
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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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 least an appropriate ending, and fault the writer who refuses us one. Flesch uses Darwinian theory to show how fiction satisfies our desire to see the good vindicated and the wicked get their comeuppance. He conveys the danger and excitement of reading fiction with nimble intelligence and provides wide reference to stories both familiar and little known.

Flesch has given us a book that is sure to claim a central place in the discussion of literature and the humanities.

Author: William Flesch
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 03/01/2009
Pages: 264
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780674032286

About the Author
Flesch, William: - William Flesch is Professor of English Literature at Brandeis University and author of Generosity and the Limits of Authority.
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