ادبیات به عنوان ارتباط: بنیادهای نقد میانجی‌گری (سری جدید پراگماتیک و فراتر از آن)

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. Annotation 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 P&b ns 78 LITERATURE AS COMMUNICATION 2 Editorial page 3 Title page 4 LCC data 5 Dedication 6 Table of contents 8 Acknowledgements 10 Chapter 1. Introduction 16 Chapter 2. A-Historical De-Humanization 44 Chapter 3. The Historically Human 92 Chapter 4. Literature as Communication 134 Chapter 5. Interactive Consequences 192 Chapter 6. Mediating Criticism 268 Glossary 296 Bibliography 318 Name Index 348 Subject Index 356 PRAGMATICS AND BEYOND NEW SERIES 364 This title offers foundations for a literary criticism which seeks to mediate between writers and readers belonging to different historical periods or social groups. It looks at postmodern "culture wars" and the author describes communication in general. Roger D. Sell. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes.