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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... a warrior as the author of a wound . Then , when the definitions narrow to writing , a similar falling off occurs between the third sense , which stresses priority , and the fourth , which admits that sometimes " author 5 Introduction.
... Sometimes " author " responds to the will to prize some sorts of writing more highly than others , sometimes to an interest in individuality or genius , sometimes to the search for a guarantee of validity in interpretation , sometimes ...
The Life of an Author Lawrence Lipking. as a profession , and sometimes to nothing more than a recognition that some writers are very persistent . Contradictions occur when these situations cross . Nor can such tensions be resolved by ...
... sometimes the goal veers away just as the runner begins to approach it . The same reason may clarify why issues of authorship can be so interesting . In the making of every au- thor , acts of imagination collide with the realities of ...
... , commonly used , and sometimes understood , by the Beau MONDE . " 56 What could be more genteel , for an English lord , than a few words in French ? Condescension could hardly go further . 29 The Letter to Chesterfield.
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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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