Literature as Dialogue
Invitations offered and negotiated
Part I of the book poses the question: How, in offering their invitation, have writers respected their audiences’ human autonomy? This is the province of what Åbo scholars call "communicational criticism". Part II asks how an audience negotiating a literary invitation can be encouraged to respect the human autonomy of the writer who has offered it. In Åbo parlance, such encouragement is the task of "mediating criticism". These two modes of criticism naturally complement each other, and in their shared concern for communicational ethics ultimately seek to further a post-postmodern world that would be global without being hegemonic.
Published online on 21 July 2014
Table of Contents
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List of figures | pp. ix–x
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Acknowledgements | pp. xi–xii
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Contributors | pp. xiii–xvi
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IntroductionRoger D. Sell | pp. 1–20
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Part I. Communicational criticism: Evaluating the invitations offered to audiences by writers
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Dialogue and dialogicity: Swift’s A Modest Proposal and Plato’s CritoDavid Fishelov | pp. 23–40
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Silence and dialogue: The hermetic poetry of Wáng Wéi and Paul CelanYi Chen | pp. 41–66
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Multifaceted postmodernist dialogue: Julian Barnes’s Talking It Over and Love, etc.Nina Muždeka | pp. 67–78
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Misunderstanding and embodied communication: The Comedy of ErrorsAntonio Castore | pp. 79–98
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The dialogic potential of "literary autism": Caryl Phillips’s Higher Ground (1989) and Marie NDiaye’s Trois femmes puissantes (2009)Bénédicte Ledent | pp. 99–114
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Narrative and talk-back: Joseph Conrad’s “Falk”Leona Toker | pp. 115–134
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Part II. Mediating criticism: Helping audiences to negotiate writers’ invitations
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The role of emotions in literary communication: Joyce’s The Portrait of the Artist as a Young ManAnja Müller-Wood | pp. 137–160
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In dialogue with the ageing WordsworthRoger D. Sell | pp. 161–176
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Rules of exchange in mediaeval plays and play manuscriptsPamela M. King | pp. 177–196
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Subjectivity and the dialogic self: The Christian Orthodox poetry of Scott Cairns and Cristian PopescuCarmen Popescu | pp. 197–218
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Dialogues with Whitman in Polish: From a series of translations, through a series of retextualizations, towards a reception series:Marta Anna Skwara | pp. 219–236
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Dialogues of cultures and national identity: Reuven Asher Braudes’ The Two PolesHelena Rimon | pp. 237–250
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Early Romantic hopes of dialogue: Friedrich Schlegel’s fragmentsGuillaume Lejeune | pp. 251–270
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Index | pp. 271–274
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