Literature as Communication : The Foundations of Mediating Criticism

by Sell, Roger D.

• ISBN13: 9781556198380
• ISBN10: 1556198388
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-01-01
• Publisher: John Benjamins Pub Co

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	ix
Introduction	1	(28)
The need for a theory	1	(1)
Main features of the theory proposed	2	(2)
Interdisciplinarity	4	(4)
Postmodernity: the centrifugal and the centripetal	8	(4)
Positive mediation	12	(7)
Mediation and the discussion of literature	19	(2)
Wanted --- an appropriate literary pragmatics	21	(8)
A-Historical De-Humanization	29	(48)
Modernist literary formalism	29	(11)
Structuralist linguistics	40	(3)
Alliances of literary formalism and linguistic thought	43	(5)
Speech act theory of literature	48	(16)
Formalist literary pragmatics	64	(10)
Some pros and cons	74	(3)
The Historically Human	77	(42)
The paradigm shift	77	(1)
Moves away from literary formalism	77	(3)
Late-twentieth-century linguistics	80	(3)
The written deed	83	(5)
From cultural structuralism and poststructuralism to postmodern stalemate	88	(19)
A historical yet non-historicist literary pragmatics	107	(12)
Literature as Communication	119	(58)
Proliferating contexts of reading	119	(26)
Social individuals and their co-adaptations	145	(13)
The protean self and communicative personae	158	(19)
Interactive Consequences	177	(76)
Typology, hermeneutics, affect, ethics	177	(1)
Generic co-adaptations through time	178	(15)
Re-living biography and influence	193	(14)
Changes in politeness	207	(23)
Bi-dimensional beauties from history	230	(23)
Mediating Criticism	253	(28)
The theory for the practice	253	(4)
Trajectories of mediation	257	(1)
Inside and outside	258	(7)
What medium for mediation?	265	(1)
Dealing with conflict	266	(5)
A future for literature?	271	(6)
Scholarship and culture in symbiosis	277	(4)
Glossary	281	(22)
Bibliography	303	(30)
Name Index	333	(8)
Subject Index	341