| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 348 pages) |
| Series |
Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser. 78 |
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Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser. 78
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| Contents |
LITERATURE AS COMMUNICATION; Editorial page; Title page; LCC data; Dedication; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1. Introduction; Chapter 2. A-Historical De-Humanization; Chapter 3. The Historically Human; Chapter 4. Literature as Communication; Chapter 5. Interactive Consequences; Chapter 6. Mediating Criticism; Glossary; Bibliography; Name Index; Subject Index; PRAGMATICS AND BEYOND NEW SERIES |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-332) and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Criticism
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Literature -- History and criticism
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Pragmatics.
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literary criticism.
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criticism.
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pragmatics.
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Pragmatics
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Literature
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Criticism
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789027298966 |
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9027298963 |
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9781556198380 |
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1556198388 |
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9781556198397 |
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1556198396 |
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1282163167 |
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9781282163164 |
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