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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... audience he eventually helped to create : the English common reader . But he also kept company in his mind with the great authors of Europe , living and dead . The effort to bring such real and imagined readers together shaped all his ...
... : 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.
... audience of the Dictionary , its one most interested and influential , reader . Yet what he wanted from the work was not at all what Johnson had done . Some of their differences resulted from different philosophies of language . The ...
... audience of one , he adapts a stately lan- guage , culled from Demosthenes and Cicero , to intimate ironies and delicate contempt . Thus the litotes of " I hope it is no very cinical as- perity not to confess obligation where no benefit ...
... audience must be left hanging . Such suspension follows an aesthetic principle , of course , the need to engage the reader by inducing that faintly anxious attention we call suspense . But it also bears on the author's own problem at ...
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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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