Samuel JohnsonHarvard University Press, 1998 - 372페이지 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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... language " must be tolerated among the imperfections of human things ... but every language has likewise its improprieties and absurdities , which it is the duty of the lexicographer to correct or proscribe " ( par . 6 ) , he spoke for ...
... language . Johnson was assigned the pedantic , “ provided it can be quietly brought about " -without interrupting genteel conversation . He ac- cepted the charge with a ... language community , which is 137 Dictionary of the English Language.
Lawrence Lipking. 193 part of the true language community , which is now a closed circle of the polite whose language is now presented as durable and perma- nent . Such deference to the polite seems foreign to Johnson ( who tends to ...
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