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Comeuppance : costly signaling, altruistic punishment, and other biological components of fiction

William Flesch (Author)
"In clear and engaging prose, William Flesch integrates evolutionary psychology into literary studies, creating a new theory of fiction in which form and content flawlessly intermesh."--Dust jacket
Print Book, English, 2007
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2007
x, 252 pages ; 25 cm
9780674026315, 9780674032286, 0674026314, 0674032284
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Introduction
How could an interest in fiction have evolved?
Signaling
Storytellers and their relation to stories
Vindication and vindictiveness
Coda