02913cam a2200361 i 4500 21611869 20220209085328.0 200715s2020 ne b 001 0 eng 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg acquire 1 shelf copy policy default xk13 2020-07- xk13 2020-07-15 (TW Situational) to DEWEY xm04 2020-07-16 (TW situational) xn11 2021-05-04 1 copy rec'd., to CIP ver. xk34 2021-08-04 to CMD 2020030888 9789027207760 (hardcover ; alk paper) 9789027260574 (pdf) DLC eng DLC rda DLC pcc e-uk-en PN81 .S3658 2020 820.9 23 Sell, Roger D., author. Literary communication as dialogue : responsibilities and pleasures in post-postmodern times : selected papers, 2003-2020 / Roger D. Sell, Åbo Akademi University. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2020] xii, 425 pages ; 25 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier FILLM studies in languages and literatures, 2213-428X ; volume 14 "As traced by Roger D. Sell, literary communication is a process of community-making. As long as literary authors and those responding to them respect each other's human autonomy, literature flourishes as an enjoyable, though often challenging mode of interaction that is truly dialogical in spirit. This gives rise to author-respondent communities whose members represent existential commonalities blended together with historical differences. These heterogeneous literary communities have a larger social significance, in that they have long served as counterweights to the hegemonic tendencies of modernity, and more recently to postmodernity's well-intentioned but restrictive politics of identity. In post-postmodern times, their ethos is increasingly one of pleasurable egalitarianism. The despondent anti-hedonism of the twentieth century intelligentia can now seem rather dated. Some of the papers selected for this volume develop Sell's ideas in mainly theoretical terms. But most of them offer detailed criticism of particular anglophone writers, ranging from Shakespeare, Ben Jonson and other poets and dramatists of the early modern period, through Wordsworth and Coleridge, to Dickens, Pinter, and Rushdie"-- Provided by publisher. Includes bibliographical references (pages 397-420) and index. Criticism. English literature History and criticism. Literature History and criticism Theory, etc. Online version: Sell, Roger D., Literary communication as dialogue Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, [2020] 9789027260574 (DLC) 2020030889