Humane Readings

Essays on literary mediation and communication in honour of Roger D. Sell
Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-90-272-5434-4
Verlag: John Benjamins Publishing Company

Buch, Englisch, Band 190, 160 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 475 g

Reihe: Pragmatics & Beyond New Series

Since the 1980s, Roger D. Sell’s literary criticism has striven to take account of the (often conflicting) approaches available without compromising the human importance of the literary work: either in terms of its creation or its reception. Sell’s theory of literature draws strength from the interface between literary studies and linguistics and is grounded on the argument that literary making is a primary communicational act between human beings. Other critics have found Sell’s work inspirational.
This book both responds to Sell’s ideas and demonstrates the multifaceted potential of his work. Aware of his trajectory through Literary-Pragmatic, ‘Humanizing’ and ‘Mediating’ criticism, Humane Readings offers a series of original and focused studies which demonstrate the power, provenance and importance of Sell’s approach. Ranging in subject matter from the Early Modern Period to the present, a reconfiguration of literary criticism by contemporary readers and practitioners is urged here. Case studies are presented on a range of poetic, novelistic, dramatic and children’s works. Each illuminates different aspects of Sell’s critical thought.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Finch, Jason

Gill, Martin

Johnson, Anthony

Lindahl-Raittila, Iris

Lindgren, Inna

Virtanen, Tuija

Wårvik, Brita

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Tabula gratulatoria
Contributors
Introduction
Anthony W. Johnson
“This verse marks that”: The Bible, editors, and Early Modern English texts
Helen Wilcox
Humanized intertexts: An iconospheric approach to Ben Jonson’s comedy, The Case is Altered (1598)
Anthony W. Johnson
Appearance and reality in Jane Austen’s Persuasion
Tony Lurcock
Green flowers and golden eyes: Balzac, Decadence and Wilde’s Salome
Sven-Johan Spånberg
“When I use a word it means just what I choose it to mean”: Power and (mis)communication in literature for young readers
Maria Nikolajeva
Place and communicative personae: How Forster has changed Stevenage since the 1940s
Jason Finch
Tony Harrison and the rhetorics of reality: A re-evaluation of v
Tony Bex
Truthful (hi)stories in Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost
Lydia Kokkola
Pragmatic Penelope or timeless tales for the times
Gunilla Florby
Three fallacies in interpreting literature
Bo Pettersson
Index