31.3817, Books: Literary Communication as Dialogue: Sell

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Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2020 21:54:58
From: Karin Plijnaar [karin.plijnaar at benjamins.nl]
Subject: Literary Communication as Dialogue: Sell

 


Title: Literary Communication as Dialogue 
Subtitle: Responsibilities and pleasures in post-postmodern times. Selected papers
2003-2020 
Series Title: FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures 14  

Publication Year: 2020 
Publisher: John Benjamins
	   http://www.benjamins.com/
	

Book URL: https://benjamins.com/catalog/fillm.14 


Author: Roger D. Sell

Electronic: ISBN:  9789027260574 Pages: 425 Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027260574 Pages: 425 Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Electronic: ISBN:  9789027260574 Pages: 425 Price: Europe EURO 99.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027207760 Pages: 425 Price: U.S. $ 149.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027207760 Pages: 425 Price: U.K. £ 83.00
Hardback: ISBN:  9789027207760 Pages: 425 Price: Europe EURO 104.94


Abstract:

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 intelligentsia 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.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
                     Ling & Literature
                     Pragmatics


Written In: English  (eng)

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