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Book Synopsis The Boswellian Hero by : William C. Dowling
Download or read book The Boswellian Hero written by William C. Dowling and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2008-07-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boswell's Life of Johnson, Tour of the Hebrides, and Tour to Corsica are controlled, argues William Dowling, by "a single conception of the heroic character, one that reaches beyond the particular narrative situation to a final vision of man's dilemma in the modern world." Samuel Johnson and Pascal Paoli, the great protagonists of the three major narratives Boswell published during his lifetime, are heroic spirits who manage to survive in an age of spiritual disintegration only by dwelling within imperiled private worlds of coherence and belief. The Boswellian Hero, the first comprehensive thematic study of Boswellian narrative, is also a work with strong theoretical implications for students of biography as a genre. Biography exists as literature, according to Dowling, only in relation to formal or objective interpretations of its meaning--to read the Life of Johnson as a literary work is to dissociate its biographical hero from any "real" or "historical" Samuel Johnson in the same way one dissociates Shakespeare's Richard III from Richard III of England. Although The Boswellian Hero promises to establish its importance in Boswell studies immediately, it will also be of significant interest to readers concerned with the hero in literature, with biography as a narrative form, and with the complex theoretical problem of "factual" or "historical" literature.
Book Synopsis Boswell's Life of Johnson by : John A. Vance
Download or read book Boswell's Life of Johnson written by John A. Vance and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book The Runaway written by Nick Petrie and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Petrie has a preternatural talent for ratcheting up suspense."--New York Times Book Review When Peter Ash rescues a stranded woman, he finds she’s in far deeper trouble than he could ever imagine in the powerful new thriller in this bestselling and award-winning series. War veteran Peter Ash is driving through northern Nebraska when he encounters a young pregnant woman alone on a gravel road, her car dead. Peter offers her a lift, but what begins as an act of kindness soon turns into a deadly cat-and-mouse chase across the lonely highways with the woman’s vicious ex-cop husband hot on their trail. The pregnant woman has seen something she was never meant to see . . . but protecting her might prove to be more than Peter can handle. In order to save the woman and himself, Peter must use everything he has learned during his time as a Marine, including his knowledge of human nature, in order to escape a ruthless killer with instincts and skills that match—and perhaps exceed—Peter’s own.
Book Synopsis Recognizing Biography by : William H. Epstein
Download or read book Recognizing Biography written by William H. Epstein and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Language and Logos in Boswell's Life of Johnson by : William C. Dowling
Download or read book Language and Logos in Boswell's Life of Johnson written by William C. Dowling and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis New Essays on Samuel Johnson by : Anthony W. Lee
Download or read book New Essays on Samuel Johnson written by Anthony W. Lee and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-10-17 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Essays on Samuel Johnson: Revaluation is a collection of essays by various hands that examines its point of focus, the inexhaustible English author Samuel Johnson, from a variety of different critical perspectives. The book also simultaneously interrogates particular texts (such as the Dictionary, the Lives of the Poets) alongside general themes (such as Johnson and intertextuality, Johnson and autobiography). The word “revaluation” from the title connotes both the deployment of specifically au courant approaches—viewing, for example, Johnson in relation to climate change, or Johnson and the notion of “osmology”—as well as more general reflections upon Johnson’s importance to our present cultural and temporal moment.
Author :Anthony E. Brown Publisher :Edinburgh, [England] : Edinburgh University Press ISBN 13 : Total Pages :200 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis Boswellian Studies by : Anthony E. Brown
Download or read book Boswellian Studies written by Anthony E. Brown and published by Edinburgh, [England] : Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Common Courtesy in Eighteenth-century English Literature by : William Bowman Piper
Download or read book Common Courtesy in Eighteenth-century English Literature written by William Bowman Piper and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arbuthnot as essays in common courtesy, has the author been able to explain the individual sense of each one in turn and to show how its creator made this sense widely available and widely agreeable?
Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of Life Writing by : Margaretta Jolly
Download or read book Encyclopedia of Life Writing written by Margaretta Jolly and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-04 with total page 3905 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2001. This is the first substantial reference work in English on the various forms that constitute "life writing." As this term suggests, the Encyclopedia explores not only autobiography and biography proper, but also letters, diaries, memoirs, family histories, case histories, and other ways in which individual lives have been recorded and structured. It includes entries on genres and subgenres, national and regional traditions from around the world, and important auto-biographical writers, as well as articles on related areas such as oral history, anthropology, testimonies, and the representation of life stories in non-verbal art forms.
Book Synopsis Beyond Sense and Sensibility by : Peggy Thompson
Download or read book Beyond Sense and Sensibility written by Peggy Thompson and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2014-12-18 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the last half of the eighteenth century, sensibility and its less celebrated corollary sense were subject to constant variation, critique, and contestation in ways that raise profound questions about the formation of moral identities and communities. Beyond Sense and Sensibility addresses those questions. What authority does reason retain as a moral faculty in an age of sensibility? How reliable or desirable is feeling as a moral guide or a test of character? How does such a focus contribute to moral isolation and elitism or, conversely, social connectedness and inclusion? How can we distinguish between that connectedness and a disciplinary socialization? How do insensible processes contribute to our moral formation and action? What alternatives lie beyond the anthropomorphism implied by sense and sensibility? Drawing extensively on philosophical thought from the eighteenth century as well as conceptual frameworks developed in the twenty-first century, this volume of essays examines moral formation represented in or implicitly produced by a range of texts, including Boswell’s literary criticism, Fergusson’s poetry, Burney’s novels, Doddridge’s biography, Smollett’s novels, Charlotte Smith’s children’s books, Johnson’s essays, Gibbon’s history, and Wordsworth’s poetry. The distinctive conceptual and textual breadth of Beyond Sense and Sensibility yields a rich reassessment and augmentation of the two perspectives summarized by the terms sense and sensibility in later eighteenth-century Britain.
Book Synopsis Dr. Johnson and His Circle by : John Bailey
Download or read book Dr. Johnson and His Circle written by John Bailey and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-07-30 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Dr. Johnson and His Circle by John Bailey
Book Synopsis A Life of James Boswell by : Peter Martin
Download or read book A Life of James Boswell written by Peter Martin and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2002-04-30 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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
Book Synopsis Dissertation Abstracts International by :
Download or read book Dissertation Abstracts International written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Samuel Johnson & the Impact of Print by : Alvin B. Kernan
Download or read book Samuel Johnson & the Impact of Print written by Alvin B. Kernan and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1989-11-21 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The description for this book, Samuel Johnson and the Impact of Print: (Originally published as Printing Technology, Letters, and Samuel Johnson), will be forthcoming.
Book Synopsis Johnsonian and Boswellian Strains in Early Nineteenth-century English Biography by : Robert Charles Koepp
Download or read book Johnsonian and Boswellian Strains in Early Nineteenth-century English Biography written by Robert Charles Koepp and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Charles Leonard Ponce de Leon Publisher :Univ of North Carolina Press ISBN 13 :9780807854037 Total Pages :356 pages Book Rating :4.8/5 (54 download)
Book Synopsis Self-exposure by : Charles Leonard Ponce de Leon
Download or read book Self-exposure written by Charles Leonard Ponce de Leon and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Self-Exposure: Human-Interest Journalism and the Emergence of Celebrity in America, 1890-1940
Download or read book The Eighteenth Century written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
