Samuel Johnson: The Life of an AuthorHarvard University Press, 2009. júl. 1. - 384 oldal He was a servant to the public, a writer for hire. He was a hero, an author adding to the glory of his nation. But can a writer be both hack and hero? The career of Samuel Johnson, recounted here by Lawrence Lipking, proves that the two can be one. And it further proves, in its enduring interest for readers, that academic fashions today may be a bit hasty in pronouncing the "death of the author." |
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... according to Johnson , and many readers have testified that Johnson's example has helped them to live . The art of biography has grown from the spark that he kindled ; that is not the least of his accomplishments . What Johnson most ...
... according to Foucault , except as an abbreviation for " author - function , " a feature of texts or discourse in the age of print culture , and doubtless soon to be lost . There is something pathetic or comic or mystified now about the ...
... : it aims at an audience of one.19 " A letter , " according to John- son , " is addressed to a single mind of which the prejudices and par- tialities are known , and must therefore please , if 16 THE BIRTH OF THE AUTHOR.
... According to Johnson , " his Lordship had returned his thanks for it and added that it was the Letter of a Scholar and a Gentleman . " 29 From one point of view , in fact , the title of gentleman fit the scholar better than it did the ...
... according to the unchallengeable dictates of revelation . " I shall never envy the honours which wit and learning obtain in any other cause , if I can be numbered among the writers who have given ardour to virtue , and confidence to ...
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Preferments Gate The Vanity of Human Wishes | 86 |
Man of Letters A Dictionary of the English Language | 103 |
The Living World The Rambler | 145 |
Reclaiming Imagination Rasselas | 173 |
The Theater of Mind The Plays of William Shakespeare | 198 |
Journeying Westward Political Writings A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland | 234 |
Touching the Shore The Lives of the English Poets | 259 |
The Life to Come Johnsons Endings | 295 |
Abbreviation | 307 |
Notes | 309 |
Index | 363 |
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