LEADER 03482nam 2200697Ia 450 001 9910960621503321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9786612163166 010 $a9781282163164 010 $a1282163167 010 $a9789027298966 010 $a9027298963 024 7 $a10.1075/pbns.78 035 $a(CKB)1000000000551495 035 $a(OCoLC)70769168 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary5000244 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000281502 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11213634 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000281502 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10306146 035 $a(PQKB)10991798 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC622813 035 $a(DE-B1597)720501 035 $a(DE-B1597)9789027298966 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000551495 100 $a20000414d2000 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aLiterature as communication $ethe foundations of mediating criticism /$fRoger D. Sell 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aAmsterdam ;$aPhiladelphia $cJ. Benjamins Pub. Co.$dc2000 215 $a1 online resource (366 p.) 225 1 $aPragmatics & beyond ;$vnew ser. 78 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 08$a9781556198380 311 08$a1556198388 311 08$a9789027250964 311 08$a9027250960 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [303]-332) and indexes. 327 $aLITERATURE AS COMMUNICATION -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. A-Historical De-Humanization -- Chapter 3. The Historically Human -- Chapter 4. Literature as Communication -- Chapter 5. Interactive Consequences -- Chapter 6. Mediating Criticism -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Name Index -- Subject Index -- PRAGMATICS AND BEYOND NEW SERIES. 330 $aThis book offers foundations for a literary criticism which seeks to mediate between writers and readers belonging to different historical periods or social groupings. This makes it, among other things, a timely intervention in the postmodern "culture wars", though the theory put forward will be of interest not only to students of literature and culture, but also to linguists. Sell describes communication in general as strongly interactive, as very much affected by the disparate situationalities of "sending" and "receiving", yet as by no means completely determined by them. Seen this way, men and women are both social beings and individuals, capable of empathizing with sociohistorical formations which are alien to them, sometimes even to the extent of changing their own life-world. By treating literary activity as communicational in this same dynamic sense, Sell radically modifies the main paradigms of twentieth-century literary theory, casting much new light on questions of genre, interpretation, affect and ethics. 410 0$aPragmatics & beyond ;$vnew ser. 78. 606 $aCriticism 606 $aLiterature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aPragmatics 615 0$aCriticism. 615 0$aLiterature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aPragmatics. 676 $a801/.95 686 $aHD 210$2rvk 700 $aSell$b Roger D$0454878 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910960621503321 996 $aLiterature as communication$94347867 997 $aUNINA