Humane readings : essays on literary mediation and communication in honour of Roger D. Sell / edited by Jason Finch [and others].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"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 : a re-evaluation of v / 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.

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Since the 1980s, Roger D. Sell's literary criticism has striven to take account of the (often conflicting) approaches available without compromising the human importance of the literary work: either in terms of its creation or its reception. Sell's theory of literature draws strength from the interface between literary studies and linguistics and is grounded on the argument that literary making is a primary communicational act between human beings. Other critics have found Sell's work inspirational. This book both responds to Sell's ideas and demonstrates the multifaceted potential of his work.

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