Mediating Literary Theory
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Literature As Communication
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Author : Roger D. Sell
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 2000
Literature As Communication written by Roger D. Sell and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This book offers foundations for a literary criticism which seeks to mediate between writers and readers belonging to different historical periods or social groupings. This makes it, among other things, a timely intervention in the postmodern "culture wars," though the theory put forward will be of interest not only to students of literature and culture, but also to linguists. Sell describes communication in general as strongly interactive, as very much affected by the disparate situationalities of "sending" and "receiving," yet as by no means completely determined by them. Seen this way, men and women are both social beings and individuals, capable of empathizing with sociohistorical formations which are alien to them, sometimes even to the extent of changing their own life-world. By treating literary activity as communicational in this same dynamic sense, Sell radically modifies the main paradigms of twentieth-century literary theory, casting much new light on questions of genre, interpretation, affect and ethics.
Mediating Criticism
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Author : Roger D. Sell
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 2001
Mediating Criticism written by Roger D. Sell and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Literary Criticism categories.
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).
Humane Readings
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Author : Jason Finch
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 2009
Humane Readings written by Jason Finch and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
"This verse marks that" : the Bible, editors, and early modern English texts / Helen Wilcox -- Humanized intertexts : An iconospheric approach to Ben Jonson's comedy, The case is altered (1598) / Anthony W. Johnson -- Appearance and reality in Jane Austen's Persuasion / Tony Lurcock -- Green flowers and golden eyes : Balzac, decadence and Wilde's Salome / Sven-Johan Spånberg -- "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 -- Place and communicative personae: how Forster has changed Stevenage since the 1940s / Jason Finch -- Tony Harrison and the rhetorics of reality / Tony Bex -- Truthful (hi)stories in Michael Ondaatje's Anil's ghost / Lydia Kokkola -- Pragmatic Penelope or timeless tales for the times / Gunilla Florby -- Three fallacies in interpreting literature / Bo Pettersson
The Editorial Gaze
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Author : Paul Eggert
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-04-04
The Editorial Gaze written by Paul Eggert and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-04 with Literary Criticism categories.
This collection of original essays brings international and multidisciplinary perspectives to the problem of how to understand and practice editorial mediation: How does editing alter what it seeks to represent? How does it condition the relationship between texts and readers? The different concerns shared by editors of a variety of genres, literary and otherwise, emerge here as constructive new approaches to the theory and practice of editing are explored. The essays make a concerted attempt to assess the implications of postmodern thought on one of the oldest and most fundamental cultural activities, editing The section on theory covers such important subjects as editorial responsibility, the death of the author, and the nature of the authorial voice. The practice section covers actual editing situations in various literary areas and in musicology, recorded music, and the preservation of oral literature. The multidisciplinary volume will find its readers among students of textual criticism, literature, music, and folklore as well as any readers of postmodern criticism.
Point Of View Perspective And Focalization
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Author : Peter Hühn
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
Release Date : 2009
Point Of View Perspective And Focalization written by Peter Hühn and has been published by Walter de Gruyter this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Stories do not actually exist in the world but are created and structured- modeled- through the process of mediation, i.e. through the means and techniques by which they are represented. This is an important field, not only for narratology but a
Mediating Literary Theory
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Author : Sabry Hafez
language : en
Publisher: Reichert Verlag
Release Date : 2007-11-01
Mediating Literary Theory written by Sabry Hafez and has been published by Reichert Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-11-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
This anthology shows the impact of modern critical theory on Arab critical practice, and gives unique access to the work of the most respected contemporary Arab writers, playwrights and poets.
Special Issue Mediating Literature
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Author : Natalie Binczek
language : de
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023
Special Issue Mediating Literature written by Natalie Binczek and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with categories.
A General Theory Of Interlingual Mediation
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Author : Sergio Viaggio
language : en
Publisher: Frank & Timme GmbH
Release Date : 2006-01-01
A General Theory Of Interlingual Mediation written by Sergio Viaggio and has been published by Frank & Timme GmbH this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-01-01 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
The author has more than 30 years experience in literary and pragmatic translation and in conference interpreting. His is the most ambitious attempt at unifying every aspect of translational and other connected activities under one overarching general theory. A most specific theory, at that, that conceptualises and explains what translators and interpreters actually do in real life and, at the same time, offers objective quality criteria. The book has many practical examples, from public announcements and owner's manuals for videocameras to poems by Pushkin and Shakespeare. Sergio Viaggio, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1945. MA in Russian Language and Literature, Moscow's Peoples' Friendship University, 1971. UN translator in 1974, interpreter in 1975, and, between 1991 and 2005 Chief Interpreter with the UN Office at Vienna. He has widely lectured and written on the practice and theory of translation and interpretation.
Post Multicultural Writers As Neo Cosmopolitan Mediators
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Author : Sneja Gunew
language : en
Publisher: Anthem Press
Release Date : 2017-02-01
Post Multicultural Writers As Neo Cosmopolitan Mediators written by Sneja Gunew and has been published by Anthem Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
‘Post-Multicultural Writers as Neo-Cosmopolitan Mediators’ argues the need to move beyond the monolingual paradigm within Anglophone literary studies. Using Lyotard’s concept of post as the future anterior (back to the future), this book sets up a concept of post-multiculturalism salvaging the elements within multiculturalism that have been forgotten in its contemporary denigration. Gunew attaches this discussion to debates in neo-cosmopolitanism over the last decade, creating a framework for re-evaluating post-multicultural and Indigenous writers in settler colonies such as Canada and Australia. She links these writers with transnational writers across diasporas from Eastern Europe, South-East Asia, China and India to construct a new framework for literary and cultural studies.
Making The Modern Reader
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Author : Barbara M. Benedict
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2018-12-04
Making The Modern Reader written by Barbara M. Benedict and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-04 with Literary Criticism categories.
Inquiring into the formation of a literary canon during the Restoration and the eighteenth century, Barbara Benedict poses the question, "Do anthologies reflect or shape contemporary literary taste?" She finds that there was a cultural dialectic at work: miscellanies and anthologies transmitted particular tastes while in turn being influenced by the larger culture they helped to create. Benedict reveals how anthologies of the time often created a consensus of literary and aesthetic values by providing a bridge between the tastes of authors, editors, printers, booksellers, and readers. Making the Modern Reader, the first full treatment of the early modern anthology, is in part a history of the London printing trade as well as of the professionalization of criticism. Benedict thoroughly documents the historical redefinition of the reader: once a member of a communal literary culture, the reader became private and introspective, morally and culturally shaped by choices in reading. She argues that eighteenth-century collections promised the reader that culture could be acquired through the absorption of literary values. This process of cultural education appealed to a middle class seeking to become discriminating consumers of art. By addressing this neglected genre, Benedict contributes a new perspective on the tension between popular and high culture, between the common reader and the elite. This book will interest scholars working in cultural studies and those studying noncanonical texts as well as eighteenth-century literature in general. Originally published in 1996. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.