The Boswellian Hero
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The Boswellian Hero
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Author : William C. Dowling
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2008-07-01
The Boswellian Hero written by William C. Dowling and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-07-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Boswell's Life of Johnson, Tour of the Hebrides, and Tour to Corsica are controlled, argues William Dowling, by "a single conception of the heroic character, one that reaches beyond the particular narrative situation to a final vision of man's dilemma in the modern world." Samuel Johnson and Pascal Paoli, the great protagonists of the three major narratives Boswell published during his lifetime, are heroic spirits who manage to survive in an age of spiritual disintegration only by dwelling within imperiled private worlds of coherence and belief. The Boswellian Hero, the first comprehensive thematic study of Boswellian narrative, is also a work with strong theoretical implications for students of biography as a genre. Biography exists as literature, according to Dowling, only in relation to formal or objective interpretations of its meaning--to read the Life of Johnson as a literary work is to dissociate its biographical hero from any "real" or "historical" Samuel Johnson in the same way one dissociates Shakespeare's Richard III from Richard III of England. Although The Boswellian Hero promises to establish its importance in Boswell studies immediately, it will also be of significant interest to readers concerned with the hero in literature, with biography as a narrative form, and with the complex theoretical problem of "factual" or "historical" literature.
Boswell S Life Of Johnson
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Author : John A. Vance
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 2009-01-01
Boswell S Life Of Johnson written by John A. Vance and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
When it first appeared in 1985, Boswell's Life of Johnson brought together the most recent and most lively assessments of the literary merit and historical accuracy of Boswell's biography. In an invigorating exchange placed at the center of the collection, Donald Greene's description of the Life as a fictionalized biography that screens the real, complex Johnson from view is challenged by Frederick Pottle's defense of Boswell's biographical method, of his sturdy compilation of detail that presents the factual rather than the fictional Johnson. Other essays explore the effect of Johnson's humor on the shaping of his image in the Life, the recent developments in literary criticism and the effect they have had on eighteenth-century studies, and the continuing interest of Boswell's Life as a showcase for members of Johnson's famous circle. The volume concludes with an assessment of the Boswellian problem--of the difficulties the Life presents to readers, scholars, and teachers.
Recognizing Biography
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Author : William H. Epstein
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2017-11-15
Recognizing Biography written by William H. Epstein and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
Epstein's narrative interweaves interpretive and theoretical chapters as it emplots the discourse of English biography from Walton to Strachey. In this way familiar generic relationships between biographer, subject, life, text, falsehood, and readership are analyzed in specific (if constantly shifting) historical, literary, cultural, and economic texts.
Language And Logos In Boswell S Life Of Johnson
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Author : William C. Dowling
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2014-07-14
Language And Logos In Boswell S Life Of Johnson written by William C. Dowling and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-14 with Study Aids categories.
In this deconstructionist interpretation of a major eighteenth-century work, William Dowling analyzes Boswell's Life of Johnson as a paradigm of antithetical structure in narrative, and develops a grammar of discontinuity" for interpreting other texts as well. Originally published in 1981. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
New Essays On Samuel Johnson
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Author : Anthony W. Lee
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2018-10-17
New Essays On Samuel Johnson written by Anthony W. Lee and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-17 with Literary Criticism categories.
New Essays on Samuel Johnson is a collection of the best thinking and writing currently available on the great English writer Samuel Johnson. It presents a primer of criticism that revaluates him within our current cultural moment while also serving as a parliament of explorations that offers a point of departure for future critical inquiry.
Boswellian Studies
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Author : Anthony E. Brown
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh, [England] : Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 1991
Boswellian Studies written by Anthony E. Brown and has been published by Edinburgh, [England] : Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
Encyclopedia Of Life Writing
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Author : Margaretta Jolly
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-12-04
Encyclopedia Of Life Writing written by Margaretta Jolly and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-04 with Literary Criticism categories.
First published in 2001. This is the first substantial reference work in English on the various forms that constitute "life writing." As this term suggests, the Encyclopedia explores not only autobiography and biography proper, but also letters, diaries, memoirs, family histories, case histories, and other ways in which individual lives have been recorded and structured. It includes entries on genres and subgenres, national and regional traditions from around the world, and important auto-biographical writers, as well as articles on related areas such as oral history, anthropology, testimonies, and the representation of life stories in non-verbal art forms.
Beyond Sense And Sensibility
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Author : Peggy Thompson
language : en
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Release Date : 2014-12-18
Beyond Sense And Sensibility written by Peggy Thompson and has been published by Bucknell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-18 with Literary Criticism categories.
During the last half of the eighteenth century, sensibility and its less celebrated corollary sense were subject to constant variation, critique, and contestation in ways that raise profound questions about the formation of moral identities and communities. Beyond Sense and Sensibility addresses those questions. What authority does reason retain as a moral faculty in an age of sensibility? How reliable or desirable is feeling as a moral guide or a test of character? How does such a focus contribute to moral isolation and elitism or, conversely, social connectedness and inclusion? How can we distinguish between that connectedness and a disciplinary socialization? How do insensible processes contribute to our moral formation and action? What alternatives lie beyond the anthropomorphism implied by sense and sensibility? Drawing extensively on philosophical thought from the eighteenth century as well as conceptual frameworks developed in the twenty-first century, this volume of essays examines moral formation represented in or implicitly produced by a range of texts, including Boswell’s literary criticism, Fergusson’s poetry, Burney’s novels, Doddridge’s biography, Smollett’s novels, Charlotte Smith’s children’s books, Johnson’s essays, Gibbon’s history, and Wordsworth’s poetry. The distinctive conceptual and textual breadth of Beyond Sense and Sensibility yields a rich reassessment and augmentation of the two perspectives summarized by the terms sense and sensibility in later eighteenth-century Britain.
Common Courtesy In Eighteenth Century English Literature
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Author : William Bowman Piper
language : en
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Release Date : 1997
Common Courtesy In Eighteenth Century English Literature written by William Bowman Piper and has been published by University of Delaware Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Literary Criticism categories.
Arbuthnot as essays in common courtesy, has the author been able to explain the individual sense of each one in turn and to show how its creator made this sense widely available and widely agreeable?
Dr Johnson And His Circle
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Author : John Bailey
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2020-07-30
Dr Johnson And His Circle written by John Bailey and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-30 with Fiction categories.
Reproduction of the original: Dr. Johnson and His Circle by John Bailey