Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents vii
3. Series editor’s preface ix
4. Acknowledgements xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Chapter 1. Postmodernity, literary pragmatics, mediating criticism 15
7. Chapter 2. What is literary communication and what is a literary community? 39
8. Chapter 3. Gadamer, Habermas, and a re-humanized literary scholarship 45
9. Chapter 4. Sir John Beaumont and his three audiences 55
10. Chapter 5. Dialogicality and ethics 85
11. Chapter 6. Encouraging the readers of tomorrow 111
12. Chapter 7. Dialogue versus silencing 117
13. Chapter 8. Cultural memory and the communicational criticism of literature 159
14. Chapter 9. Herbert’s considerateness 185
15. Chapter 10. In dialogue with the ageing Wordsworth 193
16. Chapter 11. A communicational criticism for post-postmodern times 209
17. Chapter 12. Review 229
18. Chapter 13. Political and hedonic re-contextualizations 237
19. Chapter 14. Where do literary authors belong? 259
20. Chapter 15. Honour dishonoured 277
21. Chapter 16. Dialogue and literature 305
22. Chapter 17. Ben Jonson’s Epigram 101, “Inviting a Friend to Supper” 327
23. Chapter 18. Literature, human commonalities, and cultural differences 359
24. Chapter 19. Two opposed modes of communication between Dickens and his readers 381
25. References 397
26. Index 421