The Uses of Johnson s Criticism

The Uses of Johnson s Criticism
Author: Leopold Damrosch
Publsiher: Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia
Total Pages: 274
Release: 1976
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: UOM:39015000628308

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The Uses of Johnson s Criticism

The Uses of Johnson s Criticism
Author: Leopold Damrosch
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 250
Release: 1976
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: 0608158933

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Johnson Rasselas and the Choice of Criticism

Johnson  Rasselas  and the Choice of Criticism
Author: Edward Tomarken
Publsiher: University Press of Kentucky
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2021-10-21
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780813185705

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Although Rasselas has received more critical commentary than almost any other work by Samuel Johnson, Edward Tomarken's book is the first full length study to focus on his tale of the Prince of Abyssinia. This anomaly arises, as Tomarken shows, because Rasselas has remained resistant to the customary critical approaches of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries, consistently eliciting new kinds of insights and raising new sorts of problems. Tomarken' s contribution is a new methodology to explain this phenomenon. He sees Johnson's early writings, London and Irene, as instances of the writer trying with only partial success to achieve what he first realized in The Vanity of Human Wishes, a means of permitting literary form to refer to conduct. Later works, such as The Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland, are viewed as further developments of this method, which achieved its fullest expression in Rasselas and the Life of Pope. Such a reading of Johnson develops an aesthetic that operates on the margins between the literary and the extra-literary. Although Johnson's own critical view was unable to accommodate such a position, Tomarken shows that in practice he moved toward it by a process of trial and error manifest in his poetry and narratives. When raised to the level of critical method, this approach goes beyond the assumptions not only of Johnson's day but also of our own. Tomarken's theoretical coda demonstrates how the choices of current critical theory, like those in the marriage debate in Rasselas, can be understood to interact with one another. Specifically, he proposes a dialectical relationship for two approaches hermeneutics and structuralism-usually seen as opposed to one another. This innovative study will interest not only Johnson scholars but all those concerned with critical theory.

The Literary Criticism of Samuel Johnson

The Literary Criticism of Samuel Johnson
Author: Philip Smallwood
Publsiher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2023-10-31
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781009369985

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A compelling case for the importance of the heart and emotions over that of critical theory in Johnson's literary criticism.

Data Analysis and Applications 1

Data Analysis and Applications 1
Author: Christos H. Skiadas,James R. Bozeman
Publsiher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2019-03-04
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9781119597575

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This series of books collects a diverse array of work that provides the reader with theoretical and applied information on data analysis methods, models, and techniques, along with appropriate applications. Volume 1 begins with an introductory chapter by Gilbert Saporta, a leading expert in the field, who summarizes the developments in data analysis over the last 50 years. The book is then divided into three parts: Part 1 presents clustering and regression cases; Part 2 examines grouping and decomposition, GARCH and threshold models, structural equations, and SME modeling; and Part 3 presents symbolic data analysis, time series and multiple choice models, modeling in demography, and data mining.

Samuel Johnson s Lives of the Poets

Samuel Johnson s Lives of the Poets
Author: Roger Lonsdale
Publsiher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 2220
Release: 2006-02-16
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9780191515873

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Johnson himself wrote in 1782: 'I know not that I have written any thing more generally commended than the Lives of the Poets'. Always recognized as a major biographical and critical achievement, Samuel Johnson's last literary project is also one of his most readable and entertaining, written with characteristic eloquence and conviction, and at times with combative trenchancy. Johnson's fifty-two biographies constitute a detailed survey of English poetry from the early seventeenth century down to his own time, with extended discussions of Cowley, Milton, Waller, Dryden, Addison, Prior, Swift, Pope, and Gray. The Lives also include Johnson's memorable biography of the enigmatic Richard Savage (1744), the friend of his own early years in London. Roger Lonsdale's Introduction describes the origins, composition, and textual history of the Lives, and assesses Johnson's assumptions and aims as biographer and critic. The commentary provides a detailed literary and historical context, investigating Johnson's sources, relating the Lives to his own earlier writings and conversation, and to the critical opinions of his contemporaries, as well as illustrating their early reception. This is the first scholarly edition since George Birkbeck Hill's three-volume Oxford edition (1905). This is volume two of four.

The Air Force Law Review

The Air Force Law Review
Author: Anonim
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 888
Release: 1991
Genre: Air Force law
ISBN: PURD:32754064743069

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Samuel Johnson s general Nature

Samuel Johnson s  general Nature
Author: Scott D. Evans
Publsiher: University of Delaware Press
Total Pages: 180
Release: 1999
Genre: Philosophy of nature
ISBN: 0874136962

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This study illuminates the importance and meaning of the term author in eighteenth-century discourse from the perspective of its prominent usage by Samuel Johnson. It explains Johnson's employment of nature in his periodical essays, his qualified endorsement of the new science, and his commendation of Shakespeare's drama and other literary works on the basis of their just representation of general nature.