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Sell, Roger D.
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809.89282 21
Publication Date
2002
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Annotation 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 content of books for children, but also their potential social functions, especially within education. These two perspectives are brought together within a theory of children s literature as one among other forms of communication, an approach that sees the role of literary scholars, critics and teachers as one of mediation. Part I deals with the way children s writers and picturebook-makers draw on a culture s available resources of orality, literacy, intertextuality, and image. Part II examines their negotiation of major issues such as the child adult distinction, gender, politics, and the Holocaust. Part III discusses children s books as used within language education programmes, with particular attention to young readers pragmatic processing of differences between the context of writing and their own context of reading.
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Sell, Roger D.
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808.0014 23
Publication Date
2013
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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? If and when the answer here is "Yes!", Sell's team describe the communication that is going on as 'genuine'. In this latest book, they offer new illustrations of what they mean by this, and ask whether genuineness is compatible with communicational directness and communicational indirectness. Is there.
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Finch, Jason.
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820.9 22
Publication Date
2009
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Since the 1980s, Roger D. Sell's literary criticism has striven to take account of the (often conflicting) approaches available without compromising the human importance of the literary work: either in terms of its creation or its reception. Sell's theory of literature draws strength from the interface between literary studies and linguistics and is grounded on the argument that literary making is a primary communicational act between human beings. Other critics have found Sell's work inspirational. This book both responds to Sell's ideas and demonstrates the multifaceted potential of his work.
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Sell, Roger D.
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809 23
Publication Date
2011
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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 genuinely dialogical in spirit. Their writers, rather than telling other people what to do or think or feel, invite them to compare notes, and about topics which take on different nuances as seen from different points of view. So while such texts obviously reflect the taste and values of their widely va.
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