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Michael Bell on Mediating Criticism
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Attie de Lange, Potchefstroom University for CHE, in Literator Vol. 24:1 (2003)
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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.
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Michael Bell on Mediating Criticism
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[...] 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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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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