Samuel Johnson: The Life of an AuthorHarvard University Press, 2009. 7. 1. - 384ÆäÀÌÁö 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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... story of the man as he lived — and lives — in his work . Tracing Johnson's rocky climb from anonymity to fame , in the course of which he came to stand for both the greatness of English literature and the good sense of the common reader ...
... story of Johnson's career is a long struggle to find an audience he eventually helped to create : the English common reader . But he also kept company in his mind with the great authors of Europe , living and dead . The effort to bring ...
... story this book has to tell . Yet that sort of story can hardly be taken for granted . Few words provoke more distrust or muddle , in current literary studies , than the label " author . " In the 1960s , when Roland Barthes announced ...
... story house as a workplace and had filled it with six amanuenses and a collection of boarders , whose work consisted largely of arranging and coordinating many thousands of scraps of paper , and who always had to keep one eye on ...
... story : The Birth of the Author . Like any good personal story , however , Johnson's contrast of his past and present selves seems larger and neater than life . The myth- ical status of the letter , before and after it was published ...
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First Flowers Johnsons Beginnings | 34 |
Becoming an Author London Life of Savage | 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 |