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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... readers , that aca- demic fashions today may be a bit hasty in pronouncing the " death of the author . " A book ... reader , the book shows how this life transformed the very nature of authorship . Beginning with the defiant letter to ...
... readers — not only the real - life readers , present and future , who hold the fate of the work in their hands , but also the ideal imagined readers who fill the author's mind at the moment of writing . Both kinds of readers play a part ...
... readers will not pay homage to au- thors a hundred years from now . Three aspects of authorship , in particular , have preoccupied read- ers almost as long as writing has existed . The first is the sense that writers , or certain ...
... readers might have to change their minds about the birth of the modern author as well as of the author Johnson . The ... reading . Until we know what the letter does , we will not know what it means . In this respect Chesterfield took it ...
... reader to know . By dropping hints about a troubled past , the letter kindles a spark of curiosity that the Preface ... Readers could hardly help asking what had happened during the last seven years . In 1747 , which Johnson apparently ...
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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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