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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... respect it is the opposite of most recent biographies of authors , which comb through the private life of the person but often fail to satisfy the kind of reader who cares about authors because of what they have written . By contrast ...
... respect , the name of author makes public the sense of writing as a performance or competition , which only the most worthy will survive . Finally , however , an author seems to be recognized not by individual works but by some sense of ...
... respect Chesterfield took it in just the right spirit , showing it off as a collector's item on which he could exercise his discrimination . The hand of the artist declares itself to a connois- seur in the smallest details . When ...
... respect of forms with which he gives offense , all speak of the utmost refine- ment . Good breeding has triumphed . According to Johnson , " his Lordship had returned his thanks for it and added that it was the Letter of a Scholar and a ...
The Life of an Author Lawrence Lipking. In this respect the climactic word of the letter is known— " till I am known and do not want it . " The rule of emphasis that Johnson fol- lowed generally put most weight on the end of a period.31 ...
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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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