Literary communication as dialogue : responsibilities and pleasures in post-postmodern times : selected papers, 2003-2020

Literary communication as dialogue : responsibilities and pleasures in post-postmodern times : selected papers, 2003-2020 / Roger D. Sell.

"As traced by Roger D. Sell, literary communication is a process of community-making. As long as literary authors and those responding to them respect each other's human autonomy, literature flourishes as an enjoyable, though often challenging mode of interaction that is truly dialogical i...

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Main Author: Sell, Roger D. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2020]
Series:FILLM studies in languages and literatures, volume 14
Subjects:
Criticism.
English literature > History and criticism.
Literature > History and criticism > Theory, etc.
Criticism
English literature
Literature > Theory, etc.
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Literary Communication as Dialogue
  • Editorial page
  • FILLM Advisory Board
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Table of contents
  • Series editor's preface
  • Acknowlegements
  • Introduction
  • 1.
  • 2.
  • 3.
  • 4.
  • 5.
  • 6.
  • Chapter 1. Postmodernity, literary pragmatics, mediating criticism: Meanings within a large circle of communicants
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  • 9.
  • Acknowledgements
  • Chapter 2. What is literary communication and what is a literary community?
  • Acknowledgements
  • Chapter 3. Gadamer, Habermas, and a re-humanized literary scholarship
  • Acknowledgements
  • Chapter 4. Sir John Beaumont and his three audiences
  • 1. Biographical considerations
  • 2. The broadest audience
  • 3. The audience of fellow-Catholics
  • 4. The audience of potential converts in high places
  • Chapter 5. Dialogicality and ethics: Four cases of literary address
  • 1. Towards a humanized dialogue analysis
  • 2. The dialogicality of literature
  • 3. An autobiographer's address
  • 4. A poet's address
  • 5. A novelist's address
  • 6. A dramatist's address
  • Acknowledgements
  • Chapter 6. Encouraging the readers of tomorrow: Books and empathy
  • Acknowledgements
  • Chapter 7. Dialogue versus silencing: Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
  • 1. A communicational tyrant?
  • 2. The invitation to readers of The Rime
  • 3. Readers' responses
  • 4. Green values
  • 5. The conversational readjustment of 1817
  • 6. The continuing conversation
  • Acknowledgements
  • Chapter 8. Cultural memory and the communicational criticism of literature
  • 1. Communicational criticism
  • 2. Cultural memory
  • 3. Negative capability: Postmodern novelists
  • 4. Varieties of community-making: An early modern poet
  • 5. Cultural memory and communication
  • Acknowledgements
  • Chapter 9. Herbert's considerateness: A communicational assessment
  • Acknowledgements
  • Chapter 10. In dialogue with the ageing Wordsworth
  • Acknowledgements
  • Chapter 11. A communicational criticism for post-postmodern times
  • Acknowledgements
  • Chapter 12. Review: Till Kinzel and Jarmila Mildorf (eds). Imaginary dialogues in American literature and philosophy: Beyond the mainstream
  • Acknowledgements
  • Chapter 13. Political and hedonic re-contextualizations: Prince Charles's Spanish journey in Beaumont, Jonson, and Middleton
  • 1. History
  • 2. Formal features
  • 3. Dialogicality
  • Acknowledgements
  • Chapter 14. Where do literary authors belong?: A post-postmodern answer
  • Acknowledgements
  • Chapter 15. Honour dishonoured: The communicational workings of early Stuart tragedy and tragi-comedy
  • 1. Massinger's The Roman Actor
  • 2. Plays by Middleton, Chapman, Beaumont and Fletcher, Webster, and Ford
  • 3. Epilogue
  • Acknowledgements
  • Chapter 16. Dialogue and literature
  • 1. Introduction

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