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Literature as communication : the foundations of mediating criticism / / Roger D. Sell



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Autore: Sell Roger D Visualizza persona
Titolo: Literature as communication : the foundations of mediating criticism / / Roger D. Sell Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins Pub. Co., c2000
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (366 p.)
Disciplina: 801/.95
Soggetto topico: Criticism
Literature - History and criticism
Pragmatics
Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-332) and indexes.
Nota di contenuto: LITERATURE 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.
Sommario/riassunto: This 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Literature as communication  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-16316-7
9786612163166
90-272-9896-3
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910825719703321
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Serie: Pragmatics & beyond ; ; new ser. 78.