Samuel JohnsonHe was a servant to the public, a writer for hire. He was a hero, an author adding to the glory of his nation. But can a writer be both hack and hero? The career of Samuel Johnson, recounted here by Lawrence Lipking, proves that the two can be one. And it further proves, in its enduring interest for readers, that academic fashions today may be a bit hasty in pronouncing the "death of the author." |
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... sense that the modern conditions and connotations of authorship - for instance , the way that copy- right laws define an author as an owner - are incontestably mod- ern ) . Clearly , the word has been adaptable . Like authors them ...
... ( sense 8 ) exposes the author : " Not exhilaterating [ sic ] ; not delight- ful ; as , to make dictionaries is dull work . " A momentary spark of per- sonality relieves the dullness . But a more solid , if less showy , wit also informs sense ...
... sense of a particular class of persons ( the " vulgar ” or “ commonalty " ) and the sense of “ Men , or persons in general " with the sense of a multitude unified into one : " A nation ; those who compose a community . Johnson's most ex ...
Contents
the Western Islands of Scotland | 234 |
The Lives of the English Poets | 259 |
Johnsons Endings | 295 |
Copyright | |
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