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Arguing that literature can still be a significant and democratic channel of human interactivity, he sees the most helpful role of teachers and critics as one of mediation. Through their own example they can encourage readers to empathize with otherness, to recognize the historical achievement of significant acts of writing, and to respond to literary authors’ own faith in communication itself. By way of illustration, he offers major re-assessments of five canonical figures (Vaughan, Fielding, Dickens, T.S. Eliot, and Frost), and of two fascinating twentieth-century writers who were somewhat misunderstood (the novelist William Gerhardie and the poet Andrew Young). 05 [...] as radical, in the context within which we are reading, as anything that came out of the theory wars. Roger Sell's book will be music to the ears of anyone who enjoys reading, who appreciates subtle and attentive critical analysis, and who continues to find value in the teaching of literature. Jennifer Gribble in Australasian Victorian Studies Journal, Vol. 8, 2002 05 We are far from the stalemate of much recent criticism. If such a thing as an enriching exchange between author and reader is humanly possible, who could be more fitted to further that dialogue and enhance the reader's experience than Sell's mediating critic. Gunilla Florby, Gothenburg University, in Studia Neophilologica 75, 2003 05 [...] useful to reread whenever I am teaching these authors again. Michael Bell on Mediating Criticism 05 This approach is not a sentimental return to the age of Saintsbury, but takes from the critical and pedagogical approaches following in the wake of cultural materialism and poststructuralism the concern with history to build a new form of 'literary appreciation' that will combine the 'Saintsburian energy, enthusiasm and breadth' (p. 13) with and intellectual self-consciousness. Attie de Lange, Potchefstroom University for CHE, in Literator Vol. 24:1 (2003) 05 Sell marshals an impressive amount of evidence for his communicative theory of literature. To say that the range of his reading and scholarship is wide is an understatement, and the amount of information provided does not make for easy reading. But these two books do indeed constitute a "timely intervention," to quote the blurb of Literature as Communication, in the current cultural debate. By giving a powerful boost to historical scholarship, which both New Criticism and Deconstruction to a climate of opinion less given to arid theorizing and dogmatism. Sven-Johan Spånberg, in Moderna Språk, Spring 2003 05 In a series of case studies of Fielding, Vaughan, Dickens, Frost, Eliot, Gerhardie and Auden, Sell explores how sympathy and empathy between writer and reader can regain a central place in academic literary discussion. He lays refreshing emphasis on the teacher's conveying generosity and hope. His instincts are admirable [...] English Studies 84/6, 2003 05 [...] the liveliness, opinions and generosity of the approach are very enjoyable. John Carey on Mediating Criticism 05 [...] a proposal [...] for a pragmatics which, instead of growing a hard shell of method, seeks to interact with other dimensions of human experience, answerable to aesthetics and ethics.Both <i>Literature as Communication</i> and <i>Mediating Critism</i> are books which should be read by every scholar concerned with literary theory and linguistic criticism, and by every linguist interested in the outer reaches of pragmatics and interactional discourse analysis — or by anyone who won't choose sides between literature and language. 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By way of illustration, he offers major re-assessments of five canonical figures (Vaughan, Fielding, Dickens, T.S. Eliot, and Frost), and of two fascinating twentieth-century writers who were somewhat misunderstood (the novelist William Gerhardie and the poet Andrew Young). 05 [...] as radical, in the context within which we are reading, as anything that came out of the theory wars. Roger Sell's book will be music to the ears of anyone who enjoys reading, who appreciates subtle and attentive critical analysis, and who continues to find value in the teaching of literature. Jennifer Gribble in Australasian Victorian Studies Journal, Vol. 8, 2002 05 We are far from the stalemate of much recent criticism. If such a thing as an enriching exchange between author and reader is humanly possible, who could be more fitted to further that dialogue and enhance the reader's experience than Sell's mediating critic. Gunilla Florby, Gothenburg University, in Studia Neophilologica 75, 2003 05 [...] useful to reread whenever I am teaching these authors again. Michael Bell on Mediating Criticism 05 This approach is not a sentimental return to the age of Saintsbury, but takes from the critical and pedagogical approaches following in the wake of cultural materialism and poststructuralism the concern with history to build a new form of 'literary appreciation' that will combine the 'Saintsburian energy, enthusiasm and breadth' (p. 13) with and intellectual self-consciousness. Attie de Lange, Potchefstroom University for CHE, in Literator Vol. 24:1 (2003) 05 Sell marshals an impressive amount of evidence for his communicative theory of literature. To say that the range of his reading and scholarship is wide is an understatement, and the amount of information provided does not make for easy reading. But these two books do indeed constitute a "timely intervention," to quote the blurb of Literature as Communication, in the current cultural debate. By giving a powerful boost to historical scholarship, which both New Criticism and Deconstruction to a climate of opinion less given to arid theorizing and dogmatism. Sven-Johan Spånberg, in Moderna Språk, Spring 2003 05 In a series of case studies of Fielding, Vaughan, Dickens, Frost, Eliot, Gerhardie and Auden, Sell explores how sympathy and empathy between writer and reader can regain a central place in academic literary discussion. He lays refreshing emphasis on the teacher's conveying generosity and hope. His instincts are admirable [...] English Studies 84/6, 2003 05 [...] the liveliness, opinions and generosity of the approach are very enjoyable. John Carey on Mediating Criticism 05 [...] a proposal [...] for a pragmatics which, instead of growing a hard shell of method, seeks to interact with other dimensions of human experience, answerable to aesthetics and ethics.Both <i>Literature as Communication</i> and <i>Mediating Critism</i> are books which should be read by every scholar concerned with literary theory and linguistic criticism, and by every linguist interested in the outer reaches of pragmatics and interactional discourse analysis — or by anyone who won't choose sides between literature and language. 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By way of illustration, he offers major re-assessments of five canonical figures (Vaughan, Fielding, Dickens, T.S. Eliot, and Frost), and of two fascinating twentieth-century writers who were somewhat misunderstood (the novelist William Gerhardie and the poet Andrew Young). 05 [...] as radical, in the context within which we are reading, as anything that came out of the theory wars. Roger Sell's book will be music to the ears of anyone who enjoys reading, who appreciates subtle and attentive critical analysis, and who continues to find value in the teaching of literature. Jennifer Gribble in Australasian Victorian Studies Journal, Vol. 8, 2002 05 We are far from the stalemate of much recent criticism. If such a thing as an enriching exchange between author and reader is humanly possible, who could be more fitted to further that dialogue and enhance the reader's experience than Sell's mediating critic. Gunilla Florby, Gothenburg University, in Studia Neophilologica 75, 2003 05 [...] useful to reread whenever I am teaching these authors again. Michael Bell on Mediating Criticism 05 This approach is not a sentimental return to the age of Saintsbury, but takes from the critical and pedagogical approaches following in the wake of cultural materialism and poststructuralism the concern with history to build a new form of 'literary appreciation' that will combine the 'Saintsburian energy, enthusiasm and breadth' (p. 13) with and intellectual self-consciousness. Attie de Lange, Potchefstroom University for CHE, in Literator Vol. 24:1 (2003) 05 Sell marshals an impressive amount of evidence for his communicative theory of literature. To say that the range of his reading and scholarship is wide is an understatement, and the amount of information provided does not make for easy reading. But these two books do indeed constitute a "timely intervention," to quote the blurb of Literature as Communication, in the current cultural debate. By giving a powerful boost to historical scholarship, which both New Criticism and Deconstruction to a climate of opinion less given to arid theorizing and dogmatism. Sven-Johan Spånberg, in Moderna Språk, Spring 2003 05 In a series of case studies of Fielding, Vaughan, Dickens, Frost, Eliot, Gerhardie and Auden, Sell explores how sympathy and empathy between writer and reader can regain a central place in academic literary discussion. He lays refreshing emphasis on the teacher's conveying generosity and hope. His instincts are admirable [...] English Studies 84/6, 2003 05 [...] the liveliness, opinions and generosity of the approach are very enjoyable. John Carey on Mediating Criticism 05 [...] a proposal [...] for a pragmatics which, instead of growing a hard shell of method, seeks to interact with other dimensions of human experience, answerable to aesthetics and ethics.Both <i>Literature as Communication</i> and <i>Mediating Critism</i> are books which should be read by every scholar concerned with literary theory and linguistic criticism, and by every linguist interested in the outer reaches of pragmatics and interactional discourse analysis — or by anyone who won't choose sides between literature and language. 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By way of illustration, he offers major re-assessments of five canonical figures (Vaughan, Fielding, Dickens, T.S. Eliot, and Frost), and of two fascinating twentieth-century writers who were somewhat misunderstood (the novelist William Gerhardie and the poet Andrew Young). 05 [...] as radical, in the context within which we are reading, as anything that came out of the theory wars. Roger Sell's book will be music to the ears of anyone who enjoys reading, who appreciates subtle and attentive critical analysis, and who continues to find value in the teaching of literature. Jennifer Gribble in Australasian Victorian Studies Journal, Vol. 8, 2002 05 We are far from the stalemate of much recent criticism. If such a thing as an enriching exchange between author and reader is humanly possible, who could be more fitted to further that dialogue and enhance the reader's experience than Sell's mediating critic. Gunilla Florby, Gothenburg University, in Studia Neophilologica 75, 2003 05 [...] useful to reread whenever I am teaching these authors again. Michael Bell on Mediating Criticism 05 This approach is not a sentimental return to the age of Saintsbury, but takes from the critical and pedagogical approaches following in the wake of cultural materialism and poststructuralism the concern with history to build a new form of 'literary appreciation' that will combine the 'Saintsburian energy, enthusiasm and breadth' (p. 13) with and intellectual self-consciousness. Attie de Lange, Potchefstroom University for CHE, in Literator Vol. 24:1 (2003) 05 Sell marshals an impressive amount of evidence for his communicative theory of literature. To say that the range of his reading and scholarship is wide is an understatement, and the amount of information provided does not make for easy reading. But these two books do indeed constitute a "timely intervention," to quote the blurb of Literature as Communication, in the current cultural debate. By giving a powerful boost to historical scholarship, which both New Criticism and Deconstruction to a climate of opinion less given to arid theorizing and dogmatism. Sven-Johan Spånberg, in Moderna Språk, Spring 2003 05 In a series of case studies of Fielding, Vaughan, Dickens, Frost, Eliot, Gerhardie and Auden, Sell explores how sympathy and empathy between writer and reader can regain a central place in academic literary discussion. He lays refreshing emphasis on the teacher's conveying generosity and hope. His instincts are admirable [...] English Studies 84/6, 2003 05 [...] the liveliness, opinions and generosity of the approach are very enjoyable. John Carey on Mediating Criticism 05 [...] a proposal [...] for a pragmatics which, instead of growing a hard shell of method, seeks to interact with other dimensions of human experience, answerable to aesthetics and ethics.Both <i>Literature as Communication</i> and <i>Mediating Critism</i> are books which should be read by every scholar concerned with literary theory and linguistic criticism, and by every linguist interested in the outer reaches of pragmatics and interactional discourse analysis — or by anyone who won't choose sides between literature and language. José Ángel García Landa, Universidad de Zaragoza (spain) in Language and Literature Vol 12(3), 2003 04 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475/z.108.png 04 03 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_jpg/9789027225825.jpg 04 03 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_tif/9789027225825.tif 06 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_front/z.108.pb.png 07 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/125/z.108.png 25 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_back/z.108.pb.png 27 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/3d_web/z.108.pb.png 10 01 JB code z.108.01int 1 1 Miscellaneous 1 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Introduction</TitleText> 10 01 JB code z.108.02par Section header 2 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Part I: Empathizing</TitleText> 10 01 JB code z.108.03sum 33 1 Miscellaneous 3 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Summary</TitleText> 10 01 JB code z.108.04wil 35 1 Chapter 4 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">1. William Gerhardie&#8217;s Chekhovism</TitleText> 10 01 JB code z.108.05and 57 1 Chapter 5 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">2. Andrew Young&#8217;s poetic secretion</TitleText> 10 01 JB code z.108.06par Section header 6 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Part II: Recognizing achievement</TitleText> 10 01 JB code z.108.07sum 103 1 Miscellaneous 7 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Summary</TitleText> 10 01 JB code z.108.08the 107 1 Chapter 8 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">3. The impoliteness of <i>The Waste Land</i></TitleText> 10 01 JB code z.108.09hen 139 1 Chapter 9 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">4. Henry Vaughan&#8217;s unexpectedness</TitleText> 10 01 JB code z.108.10dec 165 1 Chapter 10 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">5. 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Fielding&#8217;s reluctant naturalism</TitleText> 10 01 JB code z.108.17epi 353 1 Miscellaneous 17 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Epilogue: Mediating critics and common [<i>sic</i>] readers [<i>sic</i>]</TitleText> 10 01 JB code z.108.18not 359 1 Miscellaneous 18 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Notes</TitleText> 10 01 JB code z.108.19bib 403 1 Miscellaneous 19 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Bibliography</TitleText> 10 01 JB code z.108.20man 424 1 Miscellaneous 20 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Manuscripts</TitleText> 10 01 JB code z.108.21ind 425 1 Miscellaneous 21 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Index</TitleText> 02 JBENJAMINS John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam/Philadelphia NL 04 20011207 2001 John Benjamins 04 US CA MX 01 240 mm 02 160 mm 08 610 gr 01 JB 1 John Benjamins Publishing Company +31 20 6304747 +31 20 6739773 bookorder@benjamins.nl 01 https://benjamins.com 01 WORLD US CA MX 21 3 22 01 02 JB 1 00 38.00 EUR R 02 02 JB 1 00 40.28 EUR R 01 JB 10 bebc +44 1202 712 934 +44 1202 712 913 sales@bebc.co.uk 03 GB 21 22 02 02 JB 1 00 32.00 GBP Z 1774 03 01 01 JB John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 JB code Z 108 Pb 15 9781588111050 13 2001037882 BC <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Mediating Criticism</TitleText> <Subtitle textformat="02">Literary Education Humanized</Subtitle> 01 z.108 01 https://benjamins.com 02 https://benjamins.com/catalog/z.108 1 A01 Roger D. Sell Sell, Roger D. Roger D. Sell Åbo Akademi University 01 eng 441 x 431 LIT000000 v.2006 DSB 2 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.DISC Discourse studies 24 JB Subject Scheme LIN.PRAG Pragmatics 24 JB Subject Scheme LIT.THEOR Theoretical literature & literary studies 05 06 01 In the twentieth century, literature was under threat. Not only was there the challenge of new forms of oral and visual culture. Even literary education and literary criticism could sometimes actually distance novels, poems and plays from their potential audience. This is the trend which Roger D. Sell now seeks to reverse. Arguing that literature can still be a significant and democratic channel of human interactivity, he sees the most helpful role of teachers and critics as one of mediation. Through their own example they can encourage readers to empathize with otherness, to recognize the historical achievement of significant acts of writing, and to respond to literary authors’ own faith in communication itself. By way of illustration, he offers major re-assessments of five canonical figures (Vaughan, Fielding, Dickens, T.S. Eliot, and Frost), and of two fascinating twentieth-century writers who were somewhat misunderstood (the novelist William Gerhardie and the poet Andrew Young). 05 [...] as radical, in the context within which we are reading, as anything that came out of the theory wars. Roger Sell's book will be music to the ears of anyone who enjoys reading, who appreciates subtle and attentive critical analysis, and who continues to find value in the teaching of literature. Jennifer Gribble in Australasian Victorian Studies Journal, Vol. 8, 2002 05 We are far from the stalemate of much recent criticism. If such a thing as an enriching exchange between author and reader is humanly possible, who could be more fitted to further that dialogue and enhance the reader's experience than Sell's mediating critic. Gunilla Florby, Gothenburg University, in Studia Neophilologica 75, 2003 05 [...] useful to reread whenever I am teaching these authors again. Michael Bell on Mediating Criticism 05 This approach is not a sentimental return to the age of Saintsbury, but takes from the critical and pedagogical approaches following in the wake of cultural materialism and poststructuralism the concern with history to build a new form of 'literary appreciation' that will combine the 'Saintsburian energy, enthusiasm and breadth' (p. 13) with and intellectual self-consciousness. Attie de Lange, Potchefstroom University for CHE, in Literator Vol. 24:1 (2003) 05 Sell marshals an impressive amount of evidence for his communicative theory of literature. To say that the range of his reading and scholarship is wide is an understatement, and the amount of information provided does not make for easy reading. But these two books do indeed constitute a "timely intervention," to quote the blurb of Literature as Communication, in the current cultural debate. By giving a powerful boost to historical scholarship, which both New Criticism and Deconstruction to a climate of opinion less given to arid theorizing and dogmatism. Sven-Johan Spånberg, in Moderna Språk, Spring 2003 05 In a series of case studies of Fielding, Vaughan, Dickens, Frost, Eliot, Gerhardie and Auden, Sell explores how sympathy and empathy between writer and reader can regain a central place in academic literary discussion. He lays refreshing emphasis on the teacher's conveying generosity and hope. His instincts are admirable [...] English Studies 84/6, 2003 05 [...] the liveliness, opinions and generosity of the approach are very enjoyable. John Carey on Mediating Criticism 05 [...] a proposal [...] for a pragmatics which, instead of growing a hard shell of method, seeks to interact with other dimensions of human experience, answerable to aesthetics and ethics.Both <i>Literature as Communication</i> and <i>Mediating Critism</i> are books which should be read by every scholar concerned with literary theory and linguistic criticism, and by every linguist interested in the outer reaches of pragmatics and interactional discourse analysis — or by anyone who won't choose sides between literature and language. José Ángel García Landa, Universidad de Zaragoza (spain) in Language and Literature Vol 12(3), 2003 04 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475/z.108.png 04 03 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_jpg/9789027225825.jpg 04 03 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/475_tif/9789027225825.tif 06 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_front/z.108.pb.png 07 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/125/z.108.png 25 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/1200_back/z.108.pb.png 27 09 01 https://benjamins.com/covers/3d_web/z.108.pb.png 10 01 JB code z.108.01int 1 1 Miscellaneous 1 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Introduction</TitleText> 10 01 JB code z.108.02par Section header 2 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Part I: Empathizing</TitleText> 10 01 JB code z.108.03sum 33 1 Miscellaneous 3 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Summary</TitleText> 10 01 JB code z.108.04wil 35 1 Chapter 4 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">1. William Gerhardie&#8217;s Chekhovism</TitleText> 10 01 JB code z.108.05and 57 1 Chapter 5 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">2. Andrew Young&#8217;s poetic secretion</TitleText> 10 01 JB code z.108.06par Section header 6 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Part II: Recognizing achievement</TitleText> 10 01 JB code z.108.07sum 103 1 Miscellaneous 7 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Summary</TitleText> 10 01 JB code z.108.08the 107 1 Chapter 8 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">3. The impoliteness of <i>The Waste Land</i></TitleText> 10 01 JB code z.108.09hen 139 1 Chapter 9 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">4. Henry Vaughan&#8217;s unexpectedness</TitleText> 10 01 JB code z.108.10dec 165 1 Chapter 10 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">5. Decorum versus indecorum in <i>Dombey and Son</i></TitleText> 10 01 JB code z.108.11rob 195 1 Chapter 11 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">6. Robert Frost&#8217;s hiding and altering</TitleText> 10 01 JB code z.108.12par Section header 12 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Part III: Responding to hopefulness</TitleText> 10 01 JB code z.108.13sum 215 1 Miscellaneous 13 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Summary</TitleText> 10 01 JB code z.108.14rob 217 1 Chapter 14 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">7. Robert Frost and childhood</TitleText> 10 01 JB code z.108.15the 263 1 Chapter 15 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">8. The pains and pleasures of <i>David Copperfield</i></TitleText> 10 01 JB code z.108.16fie 291 1 Chapter 16 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">9. Fielding&#8217;s reluctant naturalism</TitleText> 10 01 JB code z.108.17epi 353 1 Miscellaneous 17 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Epilogue: Mediating critics and common [<i>sic</i>] readers [<i>sic</i>]</TitleText> 10 01 JB code z.108.18not 359 1 Miscellaneous 18 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Notes</TitleText> 10 01 JB code z.108.19bib 403 1 Miscellaneous 19 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Bibliography</TitleText> 10 01 JB code z.108.20man 424 1 Miscellaneous 20 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Manuscripts</TitleText> 10 01 JB code z.108.21ind 425 1 Miscellaneous 21 <TitleType>01</TitleType> <TitleText textformat="02">Index</TitleText> 02 JBENJAMINS John Benjamins Publishing Company 01 John Benjamins Publishing Company Amsterdam/Philadelphia NL 04 20011207 2001 John Benjamins 02 US CA MX 01 240 mm 02 160 mm 08 610 gr 01 JB 2 John Benjamins North America +1 800 562-5666 +1 703 661-1501 benjamins@presswarehouse.com 01 https://benjamins.com 01 US CA MX 21 22 01 gen 02 JB 1 00 57.00 USD