Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. List of figures ix
4. Acknowledgements xi
5. Contributors xiii
6. Introduction 1
7. Part I. Communicational criticism: Evaluating the invitations offered to audiences by writers
8. Dialogue and dialogicity 23
9. Silence and dialogue 41
10. Multifaceted postmodernist dialogue 67
11. Misunderstanding and embodied communication 79
12. The dialogic potential of "literary autism" 99
13. Narrative and talk-back 115
14. Part II. Mediating criticism: Helping audiences to negotiate writers’ invitations
15. The role of emotions in literary communication 137
16. In dialogue with the ageing Wordsworth 161
17. Rules of exchange in mediaeval plays and play manuscripts 177
18. Subjectivity and the dialogic self 197
19. Dialogues with Whitman in Polish 219
20. Dialogues of cultures and national identity 237
21. Early Romantic hopes of dialogue 251
22. Index 271