Author: Bernice Holstead MossPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Dr. Johnson's Journey to Cambridge
Author: Bernice Holstead MossPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
The Cambridge Companion to Samuel Johnson
Author: Greg ClinghamPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521556255
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
This Companion, first published in 1997, provides an introduction to the works and life of one of the key figures in English literary history.
Doctor Johnson in Cambridge
Author: Sydney Castle RobertsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, English
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Samuel Johnson and the Journey into Words
Author: Lynda MugglestonePublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191669504
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
Popular readings of Johnson as a dictionary-maker often see him as a writer who both laments and attempts to control the state of the language. Lynda Mugglestone looks at the range of Johnson's writings on, and the complexity of his thinking about, language and lexicography. She shows how these reveal him probing problems not just of meaning and use but what he considered the related issues of control, obedience, and justice, as well as the difficulties of power when exerted over the 'sea of words'. She examines his attitudes to language change, loan words, spelling, history, and authority, describing, too, the evolution of his ideas about the nature, purpose, and methods of lexicography, and shows how these reflect his own wider thinking about politics, culture, and society. The book offers a careful reassessment of Johnson's lexicographical practice, examining in detail his commitment to evidence, and the uses to which this might be put. Dictionary-making, for Johnson, came to be seen as a long and difficult voyage round the world of the English language. While such images play their own role in lexicographical tradition, Johnson would, as this volume explores, also make them very much his own in a range of distinctive, and illuminating, ways. Johnson's metaphors invite us to consider-and reconsider-the processes by which a dictionary might be made and the kind of destination it might seek, as well as the state of language that might be reached by such endeavours. For Johnson, where the dictionary-maker might go, and what should be accomplished along the way, can often seem to raise pertinent and perhaps troubling questions. Lynda Mugglestone's generous, wide-ranging account casts new light on Johnson's life in language and provides an engaging reassessment of his impact on English culture, the making of dictionaries, and their role in a nation's identity.
Dr Johnson in Cambridge
Author: Samuel Johnson's Eternal Return
Author: Martin RikerPublisher: Coffee House Press
ISBN: 1566895367
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 171
Book Description
A Summer/Fall 2018 Indies Introduce Debut Fiction Selection When Samuel Johnson dies, he finds himself in the body of the man who killed him, unable to depart this world but determined, at least, to return to the son he left behind. Moving from body to body as each one expires, Samuel’s soul journeys on a comic quest through an American half-century, inhabiting lives as stymied, in their ways, as his own. A ghost story of the most unexpected sort, Martin Riker’s extraordinary debut is about the ways experience is mediated, the unstoppable drive for human connection, and the struggle to be more fully alive in the world. Martin Riker grew up in central Pennsylvania. He worked as a musician for most of his twenties, in nonprofit literary publishing for most of his thirties, and has spent the first half of his forties teaching in the English department at Washington University in St. Louis. In 2010, he and his wife Danielle Dutton co-founded the feminist press Dorothy, a Publishing Project. His fiction and criticism have appeared in publications including the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, London Review of Books, the Baffler, and Conjunctions. This is his first novel.
The Cambridge Companion to English Dictionaries
Author: Sarah OgilviePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108568459
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
How did a single genre of text have the power to standardise the English language across time and region, rival the Bible in notions of authority, and challenge our understanding of objectivity, prescription, and description? Since the first monolingual dictionary appeared in 1604, the genre has sparked evolution, innovation, devotion, plagiarism, and controversy. This comprehensive volume presents an overview of essential issues pertaining to dictionary style and content and a fresh narrative of the development of English dictionaries throughout the centuries. Essays on the regional and global nature of English lexicography (dictionary making) explore its power in standardising varieties of English and defining nations seeking independence from the British Empire: from Canada to the Caribbean. Leading scholars and lexicographers historically contextualise an array of dictionaries and pose urgent theoretical and methodological questions relating to their role as tools of standardisation, prestige, power, education, literacy, and national identity.
The Story of Doctor Johnson; Being an Introduction to Boswell's Life
Author: S. C. RobertsPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
"The Story of Doctor Johnson; Being an Introduction to Boswell's Life" by S. C. Roberts. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
The Cambridge history of English literature
Author: The Making of Dr. Johnson
Author: John WiltshirePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Examines the process by which Samuel Johnson the man became 'Dr Johnson', the lexicographer whose reputation for scholarship, robustness and wit is inseparable.