Literary pragmatics - Sell, Roger D. (Oxon [England] : Routledge, 2015)
1. On the interpretability of texts in general and of literary texts in particular / Nils Erik Enkvist -- 2. Cross-cultural problems in the perception of literature / Richard J. Watts -- 3. Poetic effects : a relevance theory perspective / Adrian Pilkington -- 4. How indirect discourse means : syntax, semantics, poetics, pragmatics / Meir Sternberg -- 5. Poems as text and discourse : the poetics of Philip Larkin / Peter Verdonk -- 6. Understanding metaphor in literature : towards an empirical study / Gerard Steen -- 7. But what is literature? Toward a descriptive definition of literature / Willie van Peer -- 8. Two-way pragmatics : from world to text and back / Ziva Ben-Porat -- 9. On free and latent semantic energy / Claes Schaar -- 10. Textualization / Balz Engler -- 11. What difference do the circumstances of publication make to the interpretation of a literary work? / Jerome J. McGann -- 12. The politeness of literary texts / Roger D. Sell -- 13. How does the writer of a dramatic text interact with his audiences? On the pragmatics of literary communication / Ernest W.B. Hess-Luttich.
First published in 1991 by Routledge.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-259) and index.
Keywords: Discourse analysis, Literary; Pragmatics; Literature -- Philosophy; Criticism