03750nam 2200661 a 450 991095714040332120200520144314.0978661216229997890272979529027297959978902722582590272258269781282162297128216229210.1075/z.108(CKB)1000000000521853(SSID)ssj0000422924(PQKBManifestationID)11270401(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000422924(PQKBWorkID)10432827(PQKB)10910791(MiAaPQ)EBC622826(DE-B1597)720233(DE-B1597)9789027297952(EXLCZ)99100000000052185320010628d2001 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrMediating criticism literary education humanized /Roger D. Sell1st ed.Amsterdam ;Philadelphia J. Benjamins Pub. Co.c20011 online resource (441 pages)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph9781588111043 1588111040 9789027225832 9027225834 Includes bibliographical references (p. [403]-[424]) and index.Mediating Criticism -- Title page -- LCC data -- To Tia with love -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I: Empathizing -- Summary -- Chapter 1: William Gerhardie's Chekhovianism -- Chapter 2: Andrew Young's poetic secretion -- Part II: Recognizing achievement -- Summary -- Chapter 3: The impoliteness of the Waste land -- Chapter 4: Henry Vaughan's unexpectedness -- Chapter 5: Decorum versus indecorum in Dombey and Son -- Chapter 6: Robert Frost 's hiding and altering -- Part III: Responding to hopefulness -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Robert Frost and childhood -- Chapter 8: The pains and pleasures of David Copperfield -- Chapter 9: Fielding's reluctant naturalism -- Epilogue: Mediating critics and common [sic] readers [sic] -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.In the twentieth century, literature was under threat. Not only was there the challenge of new forms of oral and visual culture. Even literary education and literary criticism could sometimes actually distance novels, poems and plays from their potential audience. This is the trend which Roger D. Sell now seeks to reverse. Arguing that literature can still be a significant and democratic channel of human interactivity, he sees the most helpful role of teachers and critics as one of mediation. Through their own example they can encourage readers to empathize with otherness, to recognize the historical achievement of significant acts of writing, and to respond to literary authors' own faith in communication itself. By way of illustration, he offers major re-assessments of five canonical figures (Vaughan, Fielding, Dickens, T.S. Eliot, and Frost), and of two fascinating twentieth-century writers who were somewhat misunderstood (the novelist William Gerhardie and the poet Andrew Young).English literatureHistory and criticismAmerican poetry20th centuryHistory and criticismLiteratureStudy and teachingEnglish literatureHistory and criticism.American poetryHistory and criticism.LiteratureStudy and teaching.820.9/00071Sell Roger D454878MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910957140403321Mediating criticism4344571UNINA