Humane readings : essays on literary mediation and communication in honour of Roger D. Sell / edited by Jason Finch ...[et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Finch, Jason.

Sell, Roger D.

Series:

Pragmatics & beyond ; 190.

Pragmatics & beyond new series ; 190

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--History and criticism.

English literature.

Literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.

Literature.

Literature--Philosophy.

Physical Description:

xi, 160 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Company, 2009.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

There are three mistakes that are rather common in recent literary studies, the single context fallacy, the interactional fallacy and the non-referential fallacy, the first of which is particularly common in literary theory and literary pragmatics, the second in the theory and practice of literary interpretation and the third in the criticism of postmodern fiction. All three touch on central points in Roger Sell's literary-pragmatic, communicational and mediating view of literature. When presenting them I shall speculate on what they are based on, why they are so prevalent, and how they are related and sometimes co-occur. Finally, I try to show that these widespread fallacies also have thwarted any efforts to construct a tenable pragmatics of literary interpretation.

Contents:

"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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612445002

9781282445000

1282445006

9789027289124

9027289123

OCLC:

593240156