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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... 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 something pathetic or comic or mystified now ...
... meaning , rather than in what Wittgenstein called a family of mean- ings , is surely unreasonable . In practice , different contexts prompt the word to function differently . Sometimes " author " responds to the will to prize some sorts ...
... meaning of " author " remain constant over time . Dur- ing the past few decades , an impressive amount of scholarly atten- tion has been focused on the historical conditions that are supposed to have led to the birth — and death — of ...
... meaning of love . Cupid remains unmoved by the scars he inflicts . At the same time Johnson coaxes out another implication . He had previously condemned the lines from Virgil , not only because they sounded inappropriate or bombastic in ...
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48 | |
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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