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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... keep that writing alive . Any author might be the subject of such a book . Perhaps no au- thor offers more of a challenge , however , than Samuel Johnson . For most of the last two centuries , Johnson's personality — or what Bertrand ...
... keep other people out . At an extreme , the line of thought aims at ex- ploding humanism itself : that is , the illusion that people can master the world and the language they use . The contempt for humanist ideals that once was ...
... keeps authors alive , for instance , are surely telling liter- ary critics something they need to know . Yet material causes cannot complete the definition . " Author " is not , in fact , a recent word . In an- cient times , the Latin ...
... keep trading places . To refuse " to confess obligation " was Johnson's ostensible purpose in writing . From first word to last , from salutation to signature , the letter insists on re- versing or balancing the stations of " My lord ...
... keep one eye on deadlines and the other on the market , seemed more identified with management than with labor . But perhaps the change in his reputation was still more important . Early in 1749 his name first ap- peared on a title page ...
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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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