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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... death of the author . " A book about the life of an author , about how an author is made , not born . Lip- king's Samuel Johnson is the story of the man as he lived — and lives — in his work . Tracing Johnson's rocky climb from ...
... death but with the close — and afterlife — of his ca- reer . In this 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 ...
... Death of the Author " and Michel Foucault impatiently raised the question " What Is an Author ? " , they took delight in challenging orthodox views . Today that orthodoxy no longer recruits many scholars and critics , and a new anti ...
... death — of the author . Impatient with metaphysics , many scholars have sought the explanation of author- ship in the material circumstances of particular cultural construc- tions . A consensus now holds that the author is a modern ...
... death of the author and the coming of hypertext , only a very dog- matic theorist would predict that readers will not pay homage to au- thors a hundred years from now . Three aspects of authorship , in particular , have preoccupied read ...
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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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