Language and Logos in Boswell's Life of Johnson

Language and Logos in Boswell's Life of Johnson
Author: William C. Dowling
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2014-07-14
Genre: Study Aids
ISBN: 1400853826

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.

Boswell's Life of Johnson

Boswell's Life of Johnson
Author: John A. Vance
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2009-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 082033376X

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.

Biography

Biography
Author: Ira B. Nadel
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 258
Release: 1986-06-18
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1349090336

New Light on Boswell

New Light on Boswell
Author: Greg Clingham
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 259
Release: 1991-06-27
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0521380472

A collection of essays first published in 1991 to commemorate the bicentenary of Boswell's Life of Johnson.

Reader's Guide to Literature in English

Reader's Guide to Literature in English
Author: Mark Hawkins-Dady
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 1024
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1135314179

Reader's Guide Literature in English provides expert guidance to, and critical analysis of, the vast number of books available within the subject of English literature, from Anglo-Saxon times to the current American, British and Commonwealth scene. It is designed to help students, teachers and librarians choose the most appropriate books for research and study.

Encyclopedia of Life Writing

Encyclopedia of Life Writing
Author: Margaretta Jolly
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 1141
Release: 2013-12-04
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1136787445

First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

A Life of James Boswell

A Life of James Boswell
Author: Peter Martin
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 644
Release: 2002-04-30
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780300093124

"Born in Edinburgh, the 'Athens of the North', a Scot who hated living in Scotland and nourished a lifelong love affair with London, Boswell was biographer, journalist, laird, advocate, social lion, incurable rake, lover, life of the party, traveller, steadfast friend, endearing charmer, exhibitionist fool, and drunken sot. In this moving biography, Peter Martin assesses Boswell's literary achievements and uncovers the pulsating and dynamic world he thrived in, from the royal courts and the drawing rooms of fashionable ladies and gentlemen to the fleshpots of London's unsavoury underworld and the chambers of the insane. He also poignantly reveals a man in agony, easily misunderstood, relentlessly plagued by hypochondria or melancholia, buffeted like a straw in the wind by a multitude of anxieties and 'horrible imaginings'."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Recognizing Biography

Recognizing Biography
Author: William H. Epstein
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2017-11-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1512801887

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.