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The ethics of literary communication : genuineness, directness, indirectness /

Viewing literature as one among other forms of communication, Roger D. Sell and his colleagues evaluate writer-respondent relationships according to the same ethical criterion as applies for dialogue of any other kind. In a nutshell: Are writers and readers respecting each other's human autonom...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Sell, Roger D., Borch, Adam, Lindgren, Inna
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : John Benjamins Publishing Company, ©2013.
Colección:Dialogue studies ; v. 19.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • The Ethics of Literary Communication; Editorial page ; Title page ; LCC data ; Dedication page ; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Contributors; 1. Introduction; 1. Interdisciplinary aims; 2. Literature and communicational ethics; 3. Main findings; 4. In conclusion; References; 2. Herbert's considerateness: A communicational assessment; References; 3. "Not my readers but the readers of their own selves": Literature as communication with the self i; 1. The Narrator's stated aim; 2. 'Literature', 'self', 'message'; 3. "It seemed to me that I myself was what the book was talking about."
  • 6. Conclusion: Bigger than it seemsReferences; 6. Women and the public sphere: Pope's addressivity through The Dunciad; 1. Introduction; 2. A personal address and its consequences; 3. Comparing notes about communication; 4. Impolite genuineness; References; 7. Kipling, his narrator, and public interest; 1. The narrator in the stories; 2. Kipling in the autobiography; 3. A community founded on public interest; References; 8. Call and response: Autonomy and dialogicity in Isaac Bashevis Singer's The Penitent; 1. The narrative framework and communicational ethics; 2. Religion and literature.
  • 3. From Socrates to AristotleReferences; 9. Hypothetical action: Poetry under erasure in Blake, Dickinson and Eliot; 1. Introduction; 2. Blake's "The Tyger": The act of creation questioned; 3. Meeting apart in Emily Dickinson's "I cannot live with You"; 4. Prufrock's imaginary walk: Recurrent and local techniques; 5. Conclusion; References; Appendix 1; Appendix 2; 10. Metacommunication as ritual: Contemporary Romanian poetry; 1. Introduction; 2. A framework for poetic (meta)communication; 3. Communicational pathology and cultural resistance; 4. Literary resistance.
  • 5. Patterns of response to totalitarian discourse6. Conclusions; References; Appendix; 11. Terminal aposiopesis and sublime communication: Shakespeare's Sonnet 126 and Keats's "To Autumn"; 1. "The vice of writing"; 2. Terminal aposiopesis and its triple challenge; 3. Two cases in point; 4. Absolute sublimity and contextless communication; References; 12. The utopian horizon of communication: Ernst Bloch's Traces and Johann-Peter Hebel's Treasure Che; 1. Introduction; 2. Literature as communication; 3. Bloch: Traces of the ultimate; 4. The "we-problem."