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Tables of Contents for Literature As Communication
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgements
ix
Introduction
1
28
The need for a theory
1
1
Main features of the theory proposed
2
2
Interdisciplinarity
4
4
Postmodernity: the centrifugal and the centripetal
8
4
Positive mediation
12
7
Mediation and the discussion of literature
19
2
Wanted --- an appropriate literary pragmatics
21
8
A-Historical De-Humanization
29
48
Modernist literary formalism
29
11
Structuralist linguistics
40
3
Alliances of literary formalism and linguistic thought
43
5
Speech act theory of literature
48
16
Formalist literary pragmatics
64
10
Some pros and cons
74
3
The Historically Human
77
42
The paradigm shift
77
1
Moves away from literary formalism
77
3
Late-twentieth-century linguistics
80
3
The written deed
83
5
From cultural structuralism and poststructuralism to postmodern stalemate
88
19
A historical yet non-historicist literary pragmatics
107
12
Literature as Communication
119
58
Proliferating contexts of reading
119
26
Social individuals and their co-adaptations
145
13
The protean self and communicative personae
158
19
Interactive Consequences
177
76
Typology, hermeneutics, affect, ethics
177
1
Generic co-adaptations through time
178
15
Re-living biography and influence
193
14
Changes in politeness
207
23
Bi-dimensional beauties from history
230
23
Mediating Criticism
253
28
The theory for the practice
253
4
Trajectories of mediation
257
1
Inside and outside
258
7
What medium for mediation?
265
1
Dealing with conflict
266
5
A future for literature?
271
6
Scholarship and culture in symbiosis
277
4
Glossary
281
22
Bibliography
303
30
Name Index
333
8
Subject Index
341