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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... tion has been focused on the historical conditions that are supposed to have led to the birth — and death — of the author . Impatient with metaphysics , many scholars have sought the explanation of author- ship in the material ...
... tion of authorship implies that some writers are better than others . What flows from Homer is not only the form and content of epic but a hierarchy of poets in which he and the epic are paramount ; prior- ity and superiority go ...
... tion . Furthermore , letters served wonderfully well as a means of closing distances between people of different classes . A lord who might not open his door to someone shabbily dressed , or lower him- self to acknowledge rebuffs from ...
... . In any case , he could hardly have begun the Dictionary , let alone carried it through , without plenty of help . The stark opposi- 46 tion of scholar and patron ignores the many other hands 26 THE BIRTH OF THE AUTHOR.
The Life of an Author Lawrence Lipking. tion of scholar and patron ignores the many other hands that con- tributed to the work , from the booksellers who commissioned and funded it to the copyists who wrote out the slips to the pressmen ...
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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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