Samuel Johnson: The Life of an AuthorHarvard University Press, 01/07/2009 - 384 páginas 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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... Hence the name of an " author " has no meaning , 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 ...
... Hence the ways in which authors prove themselves continually change . That is one reason why becoming an author is such an uncertain and controver- sial calling or choice of life ; sometimes the goal veers away just as the runner begins ...
... Hence speculations about its motives ought to defer to close reading . Until we know what the letter does , we will not know what it means . In this respect Chesterfield took it in just the right spirit , showing it off as a collector's ...
... Hence Johnson needs to exhibit all his powers . The letter to Chesterfield does not conceal its own art . Rhetorically , it earns its status as a classic with majestic rhythms that work their way not only through individual 17 The ...
... between two equals or rivals ; without that rhetorical mode of address , the letter would lose its foil . Hence the epistolary form itself , borrowing some effects from a speech in a play , sets the 18 THE BIRTH OF THE AUTHOR.
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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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