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

by William Flesch

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674032284
• ISBN13: 9780674032286
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"