Author: John Ker SpittalPublisher: Beaufort Books
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Contemporary Criticisms of Dr. Samuel Johnson, His Works, and His Biographers
Author: John Ker SpittalPublisher: Beaufort Books
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 438
Book Description
Contemporary Criticisms of Dr. Samuel Johnson, His Works, and His Biographers
Author: John Ker SpittalContemporary Criticisms of Dr. Samuel Johnson
Author: John K. SpittalLiterary Criticism
Author: Gay Wilson AllenPublisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814311585
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 676
Book Description
Selections from 39 critics.
Samuel Johnson
Author: James James Lowry CliffordPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 9781452911564
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
Contemporary Criticisms of Doctor Samuel Johnson His Works, and His Biographers
Author: John K. SpittalPublisher:
ISBN: 9780841478602
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Dr Johnson's Dictionary of Modern Life
Author: Dr. JohnsonPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 0224086685
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
In this hilarious update of his original Dictionary, bewigged lexicographer Dr Samuel Johnson takes a curmudgeonly look at modern life, from Celebrity Big Brother to dubstep In 2009 Dr Samuel Johnson made a surprise reemergence from 18th century retirement and began Twittering. It proved the perfect vehicle for his acerbic, aphoristic wit and he has quickly become the darling of the site. The Guardian calls him the "greatest" thing on Twitter and the Telegraph dubs him its "star." Our gouty man of letters finds the modern world in a parlous state. It is peopled with fools like "Raisin-ey'd Tyrant Mister Nick GRIFFIN" and "BABOON-SLAYER, Fop, Macaroni, Dandy & Folderol, Mister AA Gill." His attempts to negotiate a path through the vagaries of modern life do not fare well either--for instance, on a trip to "Mister LIBERTY'S blast'd Haberdashery," upon finding "all else clad as Lumber-Jacks, I left thwart'd & alone... unwilling to dress as an unmanly Pastiche of Mister COBAIN." From Top Gear and the Daily Mail to David Cameron and Celebrity Big Brother, nothing escapes his sardonic gaze.
Samuel Johnson
Author: Jeffrey MeyersPublisher: Oldcastle Books Ltd
ISBN: 1904915507
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 543
Book Description
Jeffrey Meyers tells the extraordinary story of Samuel Johnson one of the most illustrious figures of English literary tradition. Johnson was famous as a poet, novelist, biographer, essayist, critic, editor, lexicographer, conversationalist and larger than life personality. After nine years of work Johnson's, 'A dictionary of the English Language, was published in 1755. He overcame great adversity to achieve success. 'The Struggle' is a masterful portrait of a brilliant and tormented figure.
Samuel Johnson
Author: James T. BoultonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134782500
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels. The carefully selected sources range from landmark essays in the history of criticism to journalism and contemporary opinion, and little published documentary material such as letters and diaries. Significant pieces of criticism from later periods are also included, in order to demonstrate the fluctuations in an author's reputation. Each volume contains an introduction to the writer's published works, a selected bibliography, and an index of works, authors and subjects. The Collected Critical Heritage set will be available as a set of 68 volumes and the series will also be available in mini sets selected by period (in slipcase boxes) and as individual volumes.
Johnson's Critical Presence
Author: Philip SmallwoodPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1351924923
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
Johnson's Critical Presence demonstrates how Johnson's criticism has for long been divided from the issues of modern criticism by historical narratives that have marked the progress of criticism from 'classic to romantic'. The image of Johnson constructed by his immediate antagonists has been preserved by the routines of historical representation, and mediated to the present day, most recently, by the characterizations of 'radical theory'. By an in-depth analysis of major works by Johnson, Smallwood argues that the historicization of eighteenth-century criticism can be more fruitfully understood in the light of the 'dialogic' and 'translational' historiography of such thinkers as Collingwood and Ricoeur, and that the contexts of Johnson's criticism must include the poetry he read as well as the theories he espoused. In this way the book reinstates Johnson's 'presence' as critic while displacing the 'history of ideas' as the leading paradigm for conceptualizing the history of criticism.