Literature as Communication: The foundations of mediating criticismJohn Benjamins Publishing, 04/12/2000 - 348 páginas 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. |
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... fictional entity under discussion. Communication can be thought of as a semiotic process by which people try, at least ideally speaking, to negotiate a balanced, and even shared view of that entity. In doing so, they inevitably open ...
... fictional entity under discussion. Communication can be thought of as a semiotic process by which people try, at least ideally speaking, to negotiate a balanced, and even shared view of that entity. In doing so, they inevitably open ...
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... fictional character or persona which the work dramatized. Seen this way, literature was not much implicated in historical human relationships at all, whether between individuals or whole groups. In the pages of some Marxist and post ...
... fictional character or persona which the work dramatized. Seen this way, literature was not much implicated in historical human relationships at all, whether between individuals or whole groups. In the pages of some Marxist and post ...
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... fictional, and there was a strong tendency to think of fiction as “only” fiction: as not “serious” but essentially lying. From Kant and the Romantics onwards, the distinction between fact and fiction, between “science” and “imagination ...
... fictional, and there was a strong tendency to think of fiction as “only” fiction: as not “serious” but essentially lying. From Kant and the Romantics onwards, the distinction between fact and fiction, between “science” and “imagination ...
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... fictional texts, in the canons of many different groupings and communities, just happen to be in a majority. This need not mean that fictionality is a literary sine qua non. Nor is fictionality peculiar to literature. Not only is there ...
... fictional texts, in the canons of many different groupings and communities, just happen to be in a majority. This need not mean that fictionality is a literary sine qua non. Nor is fictionality peculiar to literature. Not only is there ...
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... fictional universe without authors and readers; the concomitant attempt to undercut its real psychological impact; and the Symbolist point about its indeterminacy of meaning. The main modifications will be: that fictional texts are ...
... fictional universe without authors and readers; the concomitant attempt to undercut its real psychological impact; and the Symbolist point about its indeterminacy of meaning. The main modifications will be: that fictional texts are ...
Índice
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Chapter 3 The Historically Human | 77 |
Chapter 4 Literature as Communication | 119 |
Chapter 5 Interactive Consequences | 177 |
Chapter 6 Mediating Criticism | 253 |
Glossary | 281 |
Bibliography | 303 |
Name Index | 333 |
Subject Index | 341 |
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