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Author | : Philip Smallwood |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : 2023-09-21 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1009370022 |
Philip Smallwood celebrates the emotional power and enduring wisdom of Samuel Johnson's literary criticism, showing how the abyss of the heart informs its powerful life. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.
Author | : Samuel Johnson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
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Author | : Edward Tomarken |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2009-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0820333867 |
Since the first appearance of Samuel Johnson's edition of Shakespeare's drama in 1765, its Preface has often been published separately, while the Notes have been treated as miscellaneous and fragmentary. As a result, few modern readers realize that the Notes in fact contain coherent interpretations of most of the plays and that many portions of the Preface are generalizations related to those readings. Scholars who have examined the Notes carefully have almost always used them in studies of larger issues, such as Johnson's morality or rhetoric. In this book, Edward Tomarken provides the first full-length study of the Notes to Shakespeare, showing how they raise issues of direct concern to modern critics and theoreticians. While referring to Johnson's notes on all the Shakespearean dramas, Tomarken focuses on eight plays--Henry IV, Troilus and Cressida, Twelfth Night, The Taming of the Shrew, King Lear, The Tempest, Hamlet, and Macbeth--to demonstrate the range of Johnson's editorial and critical abilities. Each chapter, devoted to a single play, moves from the particular to the general-from specific remarks about the play in the Notes, to related theoretical statements in the Preface, and finally to an axiom of literary theory. Ranging from a formulation concerning ideology in criticism to a reconsideration of aesthetic empathy, these axioms are, Tomarken contends, essential to literary criticism as a discipline and manifest Johnson's relevance to modern criticism. The conception of criticism that emerges in this book goes well beyond the theoretical premises of the eighteenth century. Tomarken submits that the ethical dimension of criticism-the moral aspect so fundamental to Johnson but so foreign to modern critics-can point to a way of mediating between the ideological differences that have become so divisive in modern criticism and theory.
Author | : Jean H. Hagstrum |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Criticism |
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Author | : Samuel Johnson |
Publisher | : London ; Boston : Routledge & K. Paul |
Total Pages | : 492 |
Release | : 1973 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
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Author | : Samuel Johnson |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 853 |
Release | : 2021-01-05 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 030011303X |
A one-volume collection of the prose and poetry of eighteenth-century Britainldquo;s pre-eminent lexicographer, critic, biographer, and poet Samuel Johnson Samuel Johnson was eighteenth-century Britain's preeminent man of letters, and his influence endures to this day. He excelled as a moral and literary critic, biographer, lexicographer, and poet. This anthology, designed to make Johnson's essential works accessible to students and general readers, draws its texts from the definitive Yale Edition of the Works of Samuel Johnson. In most cases, texts are included in full rather than excerpted. The anthology includes many essays from The Rambler and other periodicals; Rasselas; the prefaces to Johnson's Dictionary and his edition of Shakespeare; the complete Lives of Cowley, Milton, Pope, Savage, and Gray, as well as generous selections from A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland. Some parts are arranged thematically, allowing readers to focus on such topics as religion, marriage, war, and literature. The anthology includes a biographical introduction, and its ample annotation updates and enlarges the commentary in the YaleEdition.
Author | : John Ker Spittal |
Publisher | : Beaufort Books |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 1923 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
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Author | : Jean Howard Hagstrum |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Criticism |
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Author | : Samuel Johnson |
Publisher | : DigiCat |
Total Pages | : 89 |
Release | : 2022-09-16 |
Genre | : Fiction |
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Preface to Shakespeare" by Samuel Johnson. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author | : Samuel Johnson |
Publisher | : Open Road Media |
Total Pages | : 667 |
Release | : 2021-01-05 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1504065344 |
A brief essay on the life and genius of the prolific eighteenth-century English author, followed by a selection of his poetry, letters, and a novella. Under the pen name “Dr. Johnson,” English writer Samuel Johnson was a biographer, essayist, lexicographer, literary critic, moralist, playwright, poet, and travel writer. The son of a bookseller, he made so many contributions to the English language that he is regarded as one of the greatest figures of eighteenth-century literature. The first of nine volumes, The Works of Samuel JohnsonVolume One includes an essay on the life and genius of Samuel Johnson, followed by a collection of his poetry, including his “Drury Lane Prologue,” “On the Death of Mr. Robert Levet,” and “The Vanity of Human Wishes.” A selection of his personal correspondence is featured as well, along with his great satirical novella, The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia.