Literary Community-Making
The dialogicality of English texts from the seventeenth century to the present
Published on 12. June 2012
Book
Hardback
263 pages
978-90-272-1031-9 (ISBN)
Description
The writing and reading of so-called literary texts can be seen as processes which are genuinely communicational. They lead, that is to say, to the growth of communities within which individuals acknowledge not only each other's similarities but differences as well. In this new book, Roger D. Sell and his colleagues apply the communicational perspective to the past four centuries of literary activity in English. Paying detailed attention to texts - both canonical and non-canonical - by Amelia Lanyer, Thomas Coryate, John Boys, Pope, Coleridge, Arnold, Kipling, William Plomer, Auden, Walter Macken, Robert Kroetsch, Rudy Wiebe and Lyn Hejinian, the book shows how the communicational issues of addressivity, commonality, dialogicality and ethics have arisen in widely different historical contexts. At a metascholarly level, it suggests that the communicational criticism of literary texts has significant cultural, social and political roles to play in the post-postmodern era of rampant globalization.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
+ index
Dimensions
Height: 245 mm
Width: 164 mm
Weight
645 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-272-1031-9 (9789027210319)
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Roger D. Sell
Literary Community-Making
The dialogicality of English texts from the seventeenth century to the present
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06/2012
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Content
1. List of illustrations and figures; 2. Contributors; 3. Chapter 1. Introduction (by Sell, Roger D.); 4. Chapter 2. Creating paratextual communities: Reading Amelia Lanyer and Thomas Coryate (by Wilcox, Helen); 5. Chapter 3. Laudianism and literary communication: The case of John Boys's Fasti Cantuarienses (1670) (by Johnson, Anthony W.); 6. Chapter 4. Pope's community-making through The Dunciad Variorum (by Borch, Adam); 7. Chapter 5. Dialogue versus Silencing: Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (by Sell, Roger D.); 8. Chapter 6. Towards a dialogical approach to Arnold (by Alarauhio, Juha-Pekka); 9. Chapter 7. Kipling's soldiers and Kipling's readers: Members of a single community? (by Lindgren, Inna); 10. Chapter 8. Addressivity and literary history: The case of William Plomer (by Finch, Jason); 11. Chapter 9. Within the anti-fascist community: Ambivalences in Auden's "Spain" (by Toker, Leona); 12. Chapter 10. Literary dialogicality under threat?: The representation of Daniel O'Connell in Walter Macken'sThe Silent People (by Bexar, Gunilla); 13. Chapter 11. Robert Kroetsch and Rudy Wiebe: From Prairie communities to communities of enlightened readers (by Korkka, Janne); 14. Chapter 12. "Reading as a relationship": Lyn Hejinian's poetics of a common language (by Siltanen, Elina); 15. Index