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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sell, Roger D., author.

Series:

FILLM studies in languages and literatures ; Volume 14.

FILLM studies in languages and literatures ; Volume 14

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English literature--History and criticism.

English literature.

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

Literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 425 pages).

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2020]

Summary:

"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 in spirit. This gives rise to author-respondent communities whose members represent existential commonalities blended together with historical differences. These heterogeneous literary communities have a larger social significance, in that they have long served as counterweights to the hegemonic tendencies of modernity, and more recently to postmodernity's well-intentioned but restrictive politics of identity. In post-postmodern times, their ethos is increasingly one of pleasurable egalitarianism. The despondent anti-hedonism of the twentieth century intelligentia can now seem rather dated. Some of the papers selected for this volume develop Sell's ideas in mainly theoretical terms. But most of them offer detailed criticism of particular anglophone writers, ranging from Shakespeare, Ben Jonson and other poets and dramatists of the early modern period, through Wordsworth and Coleridge, to Dickens, Pinter, and Rushdie"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Prelim pages

Table of contents

Series editor’s preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1. Postmodernity, literary pragmatics, mediating criticism

Chapter 2. What is literary communication and what is a literary community?

Chapter 3. Gadamer, Habermas, and a re-humanized literary scholarship

Chapter 4. Sir John Beaumont and his three audiences

Chapter 5. Dialogicality and ethics

Chapter 6. Encouraging the readers of tomorrow

Chapter 7. Dialogue versus silencing

Chapter 8. Cultural memory and the communicational criticism of literature

Chapter 9. Herbert’s considerateness

Chapter 10. In dialogue with the ageing Wordsworth

Chapter 11. A communicational criticism for post-postmodern times

Chapter 12. Review

Chapter 13. Political and hedonic re-contextualizations

Chapter 14. Where do literary authors belong?

Chapter 15. Honour dishonoured

Chapter 16. Dialogue and literature

Chapter 17. Ben Jonson’s Epigram 101, “Inviting a Friend to Supper”

Chapter 18. Literature, human commonalities, and cultural differences

Chapter 19. Two opposed modes of communication between Dickens and his readers

References

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789027260574

9027260575