
Humane Readings
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This book both responds to Sell's ideas and demonstrates the multifaceted potential of his work. Aware of his trajectory through Literary-Pragmatic, 'Humanizing' and 'Mediating' criticism, Humane Readings offers a series of original and focused studies which demonstrate the power, provenance and importance of Sell's approach. Ranging in subject matter from the Early Modern Period to the present, a reconfiguration of literary criticism by contemporary readers and practitioners is urged here. Case studies are presented on a range of poetic, novelistic, dramatic and children's works. Each illuminates different aspects of Sell's critical thought.
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Tabula gratulatoria
vii-viii
Contributors
ix-xi
Introduction
Anthony W. Johnson
1-15
"This verse marks that": The Bible, editors, and Early Modern English texts
Helen Wilcox
17-30
Humanized intertexts: An iconospheric approach to Ben Jonson's comedy, The Case is Altered (1598)
Anthony W. Johnson
31-48
Appearance and reality in Jane Austen's Persuasion
Tony Lurcock
49-59
Green flowers and golden eyes: Balzac, Decadence and Wilde's Salome
Sven-Johan Spånberg
61-75
"When I use a word it means just what I choose it to mean": Power and (mis)communication in literature for young readers
Maria Nikolajeva
77-87
Place and communicative personae: How Forster has changed Stevenage since the 1940s
Jason Finch
89-106
Tony Harrison and the rhetorics of reality: A re-evaluation of v
Tony Bex
107-118
Truthful (hi)stories in Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost
Lydia Kokkola
119-133
Pragmatic Penelope or timeless tales for the times
Gunilla Florby
135-143
Three fallacies in interpreting literature
Bo Pettersson
145-156
Index
157-160
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