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The History of Rasselas Prince of Abyssinia
Author | : Samuel Johnson |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 1831 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : UCM:5325874705 |
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The History of Rasselas Prince of Abissinia
Author | : Samuel Johnson |
Publsiher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2009-06-11 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780191607844 |
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'What then is to be done? said Rasselas; the more we inquire, the less we can resolve.' Rasselas and his companions escape the pleasures of the 'happy valley' in order to make their 'choice of life'. By witnessing the misfortunes and miseries of others they may come to understand the nature of happiness, and value it more highly. Their travels and enquiries raise important practical and philosophical questions concerning many aspects of the human condition, including the business of a poet, the stability of reason, the immortality of the soul, and how to find contentment. Johnson's adaptation of the popular oriental tale displays his usual wit and perceptiveness; sceptical and probing, his tale nevertheless suggests that wisdom and self-knowledge need not be entirely beyond reach. This new edition relates the novel to Johnson's life and thought and to politics, society, and the global context of the Seven Years War. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Genre and Ethics
Author | : Edward Tomarken |
Publsiher | : University of Delaware Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0874137675 |
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"The study addresses the following kinds of questions: Why does genre need ethics? Why does ethics need genre? How is ethics related to and distinguished from ideology as currently used in cultural studies? How does a generic ethical method come to terms with history and historical change? How is a generic ethical method related to religion? Does genre reinforce the concept of the ethical agent? This book will therefore have a broad audience, including scholars whose fields range from the Renaissance to the present, theorists and philosophers whose interests include ethics, cultural studies, and ideologies, and educationists pursuing methods for graduates and undergraduates. The autobiographical introduction serves as the "hook," as our creative writers say, for this audience. Generically, it is experimental, being at once scholarly, pedagogical, and autobiographical."--BOOK JACKET.
British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 724 |
Release | : 1890 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : BSB:BSB11455959 |
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Life of Samuel Johnson
Author | : Francis Richard Charles Grant |
Publsiher | : London : W. Scott |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 1887 |
Genre | : Authors, English |
ISBN | : UCAL:B3135298 |
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The Excursion and Wordsworth s Iconography
Author | : Brandon Chao-Chi Yen |
Publsiher | : Romantic Reconfigurations Stud |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781786941336 |
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Through a wide variety of verbal and pictorial references, this book demonstrates how Wordsworth's iconography, albeit apparently 'collateral', makes crucial contributions to his central arguments and preoccupations in The Excursion, as well as in his other major works.
Catalogue of Printed Books
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 730 |
Release | : 1889 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : NYPL:33433000291611 |
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Domestick Privacies
Author | : David Wheeler |
Publsiher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 2021-11-21 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780813187730 |
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Biography was Samuel Johnson's favorite among literary genres, and his Lives of the Poets is often regarded as the capstone of his career. The central place of biography in his oeuvre is explored in this collection of nine original essays by leading Johnson scholars. Varied in their focus and approach, the essays range from a philosophical overview of Johnson's notion of the relation between life and art, to a detailed reading of the Life of Milton, to a speculation on the value of the Lives in the classroom. Emerging clearly in the essays are the dual concerns—artistic and intellectual—that can be pursued in Johnson's biographical writings. On the one hand, they are complex creative works that reward literary analysis, traditional and modern. On the other, with their wide range, they offer a special insight into Johnson's eighteenth-century world—the state of biography at the time, the tradition of English poetry, literary criticism and its philosophical values, and, of course, Johnson himself with his powers and failings. Domestick Privacies thus offers important new perspectives not only to professed Johnsonians but to all who study biography, criticism, and the eighteenth century.