Roger D. Sell
List of John Benjamins publications in which Roger D. Sell is involved.
Journal
ISSN 1566-5852 | E‑ISSN 1569‑9854
Book series
Literary Communication as Dialogue: Responsibilities and pleasures in post-postmodern times. Selected papers 2003-2020
Roger D. Sell
As traced by Roger D. Sell, literary communication is a process of community-making. As long as literary authors and those responding to them respect each other’s human autonomy, literature flourishes as an enjoyable, though often challenging mode of interaction that is truly dialogical in spirit.… read more[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures, 14] 2020. xii, 425 pp.
Renaissance Man: Essays on literature and culture for Anthony W. Johnson
Edited by Tommi Alho, Jason Finch and Roger D. Sell
Here friends of Anthony W. Johnson honour him as a re-embodiment of the polymathic artist-scholar figure once observable in Ben Jonson, on whom he has done some of his most distinctive work. Part I of the book reflects his strong grounding in English literature and culture of the seventeenth… read more[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures, 11] 2019. xi, 273 pp.
A Humanizing Literary Pragmatics: Theory, criticism, education. Selected papers 1985-2002
Roger D. Sell
In much of his earlier work Roger D. Sell was shaping literary studies, historical perspectives, and pragmatics into a fluent interdisciplinarity. This enabled him to explore the fundamentally human relationships which develop between literary writers and those who respond to them.Literary writers,… read more[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures, 10] 2019. xii, 396 pp.
Major versus Minor? – Languages and Literatures in a Globalized World
Edited by Theo D’haen, Iannis Goerlandt and Roger D. Sell
Do the notions of “World Lingua Franca” and “World Literature” now need to be firmly relegated to an imperialist-cum-colonialist past? Or can they be rehabilitated in a practical and equitable way that fully endorses a politics of recognition? For scholars in the field of languages and literatures,… read more[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures, 1] 2015. xv, 280 pp.
Literature as Dialogue: Invitations offered and negotiated
Edited by Roger D. Sell
How is it that some texts achieve the status of literature? Partly, at least, because the relationship they allow between their writers and the people who respond to them is fundamentally egalitarian. This is the insight explored by members of the Åbo literary communication network, who in this new… read more[Dialogue Studies, 22] 2014. xv, 274 pp.
The Ethics of Literary Communication: Genuineness, directness, indirectness
Edited by Roger D. Sell, Adam Borch and Inna Lindgren
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 autonomy?… read more[Dialogue Studies, 19] 2013. xii, 271 pp.
Literary Community-Making: The dialogicality of English texts from the seventeenth century to the present
Edited by Roger D. Sell
The writing and reading of so-called literary texts can be seen as processes which are genuinely communicational. They lead, that is to say, to the growth of communities within which individuals acknowledge not only each other’s similarities but differences as well. In this new book, Roger D. Sell… read more[Dialogue Studies, 14] 2012. x, 263 pp.
Communicational Criticism: Studies in literature as dialogue
Roger D. Sell
Further developing the line of argument put forward in his Literature as Communication (2000) and Mediating Criticism (2001), Roger D. Sell now suggests that when so-called literary texts stand the test of time and appeal to a large and heterogeneous circle of admirers, this is because they are… read more[Dialogue Studies, 11] 2011. xi, 392 pp.
Children's Literature as Communication: The ChiLPA project
Edited by Roger D. Sell
In this book, members of the ChiLPA Project explore the children’s literature of several different cultures, ranging from ancient India, nineteenth century Russia, and the Soviet Union, to twentieth century Britain, America, Australia, Sweden, and Finland. The research covers not only the form and… read more[Studies in Narrative, 2] 2002. xii, 352 pp.
Mediating Criticism: Literary Education Humanized
Roger D. Sell
In the twentieth century, literature was under threat. Not only was there the challenge of new forms of oral and visual culture. Even literary education and literary criticism could sometimes actually distance novels, poems and plays from their potential audience. This is the trend which Roger D.… read more[Not in series, 108] 2001. x, 431 pp.
Literature as Communication: The foundations of mediating criticism
Roger D. Sell
This book offers foundations for a literary criticism which seeks to mediate between writers and readers belonging to different historical periods or social groupings. This makes it, among other things, a timely intervention in the postmodern “culture wars”, though the theory put forward will be of… read more[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 78] 2000. xiv, 348 pp.
2022 Chapter 1. History and prophecy: A Janus-faced account of FILLM from 1990 to 2050 Beyond Babel: Scholarly organizations and the study of languages and literatures, Clark, Tom (ed.), pp. 13–24 | Chapter
2019 Introducing Anthony W. Johnson Renaissance Man: Essays on literature and culture for Anthony W. Johnson, Alho, Tommi, Jason Finch and Roger D. Sell (eds.), pp. 1–22 | Chapter
2019 Chapter 1. Ben Jonson’s Epigram 101, “Inviting a Friend to Supper”: Literary pleasures immediately tasted Renaissance Man: Essays on literature and culture for Anthony W. Johnson, Alho, Tommi, Jason Finch and Roger D. Sell (eds.), pp. 25–57 | Chapter
2016 Series editor's preface Literature in Contemporary Media Culture: Technology - Subjectivity- Aesthetics, Paulson, Sarah J. and Anders Skare Malvik (eds.), p. | Preface
2015 Introduction Major versus Minor? – Languages and Literatures in a Globalized World, D’haen, Theo, Iannis Goerlandt and Roger D. Sell (eds.), pp. 1–12 | Article
2014 Introduction Literature as Dialogue: Invitations offered and negotiated, Sell, Roger D. (ed.), pp. 1–20 | Article
2014 In dialogue with the ageing Wordsworth Literature as Dialogue: Invitations offered and negotiated, Sell, Roger D. (ed.), pp. 161–176 | Article
2013 Chapter 2. Herbert’s considerateness: A communicational assessment The Ethics of Literary Communication: Genuineness, directness, indirectness, Sell, Roger D., Adam Borch and Inna Lindgren (eds.), pp. 21–28 | Article
2013 Chapter 1. Introduction The Ethics of Literary Communication: Genuineness, directness, indirectness, Sell, Roger D., Adam Borch and Inna Lindgren (eds.), pp. 1–19 | Article
2012 Chapter 1. Introduction Literary Community-Making: The dialogicality of English texts from the seventeenth century to the present, Sell, Roger D. (ed.), pp. 1–16 | Article
2012 Chapter 5. Dialogue versus Silencing: Coleridge’s The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Literary Community-Making: The dialogicality of English texts from the seventeenth century to the present, Sell, Roger D. (ed.), pp. 91–130 | Article
2011 Dialogicality and ethics: Four cases of literary address Language and Dialogue 1:1, pp. 79–104 | Article
Now that linguists are beginning to see an element of dialogicality in all language use, there is more scope for a humanized dialogue analysis with ameliorative goals. This can divide its labour between a communicational criticism dealing with the ethics of address, and a mediating criticism… read more
2002 Reader-learners: Children’s novels and participatory pedagogy Children's Literature as Communication: The ChiLPA project, Sell, Roger D. (ed.), pp. 263–290 | Chapter
2002 Introduction: Children’s literature as communication Children's Literature as Communication: The ChiLPA project, Sell, Roger D. (ed.), pp. 1–26 | Chapter
2001 A historical but non-determinist pragmatics of literary communication Journal of Historical Pragmatics 2:1, pp. 1–32 | Article
Despite any appearances to the contrary, literary writing and reading are forms of communicative activity for which a human parity needs to obtain between the different participants. By the same token, literature can also bring about changes in the human world. Literary pragmatics is therefore… read more
1994 Postdisciplinary Philology: Culturally relativistic pragmatics English Historical Linguistics 1992: Papers from the 7th International Conference on English Historical Linguistics, Valencia, 22–26 September 1992, Fernández, Francisco, Miguel Fuster Márquez and Juan Jose Calvo (eds.), pp. 29–36 | Article