Author : Philip Smallwood
Publisher : Associated University Presse
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 35,43 MB
Release : 2009-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780838757420
How far does Johnson's mind touch the critical consciousness, and how far is the modern experience of his writings a form of historical knowledge? This title includes essays by British and American scholars who seek to answer these questions from a sequence of argued perspectives.
Author : Philip Smallwood
Publisher :
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 12,56 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780838754948
"How far does Johnson's mind touch the critical consciousness of the present day, and how far is the modern experience of his writings a form of historical knowledge? This volume of essays by British and American scholars seeks to answer these questions from a sequence of argued perspectives that looks both to the past and to the potential future of Johnson's reputation."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author : Philip Smallwood
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 44,82 MB
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1351924923
Johnson's Critical Presence demonstrates how Johnson's criticism has for long been divided from the issues of modern criticism by historical narratives that have marked the progress of criticism from 'classic to romantic'. The image of Johnson constructed by his immediate antagonists has been preserved by the routines of historical representation, and mediated to the present day, most recently, by the characterizations of 'radical theory'. By an in-depth analysis of major works by Johnson, Smallwood argues that the historicization of eighteenth-century criticism can be more fruitfully understood in the light of the 'dialogic' and 'translational' historiography of such thinkers as Collingwood and Ricoeur, and that the contexts of Johnson's criticism must include the poetry he read as well as the theories he espoused. In this way the book reinstates Johnson's 'presence' as critic while displacing the 'history of ideas' as the leading paradigm for conceptualizing the history of criticism.
Author : Anthony W. Lee
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 35,72 MB
Release : 2018-10-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1611496799
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 : Christine Rees
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : pages
File Size : 28,41 MB
Release : 2010-05-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 113948592X
Samuel Johnson is often represented as primarily antagonistic or antipathetic to Milton. Yet his imaginative and intellectual engagement with Milton's life and writing extended across the entire span of his own varied writing career. As essayist, poet, lexicographer, critic and biographer - above all as reader - Johnson developed a controversial, fascinating and productive literary relationship with his powerful predecessor. To understand how Johnson creatively appropriates Milton's texts, how he critically challenges yet also confirms Milton's status, and how he constructs him as a biographical subject, is to deepen the modern reader's understanding of both writers in the context of historical continuity and change. Christine Rees's insightful study will be of interest not only to Milton and Johnson specialists, but to all scholars of early modern literary history and biography.
Author : Mark W. Johnson
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 36,66 MB
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 163369755X
Gold Medal Winner for Best Leadership Book in the 2021 Axiom Business Book Awards Named one of the "Top Ten Technology Books Of 2020" — Forbes Named one of the "10 Best New Business Books of 2020" by Inc. magazine "Johnson and Suskewicz have raised a battle cry for the kind of leadership we need in these uncertain times." -- Sandi Peterson, Member, Board of Directors, Microsoft We all know a visionary leader when we see one. They're bold and prophetic and at the same time pragmatic. They don't just promote change--they drive it, while inspiring and mobilizing others to do the same. Visionaries like Steve Jobs and Jeff Bezos possess a host of innate qualities that make them extraordinary, but what truly sets them apart is their ability to turn vision into action. In Lead from the Future, Innosight's Mark W. Johnson and Josh Suskewicz introduce a new way of thinking and managing, called "future-back," that enables any manager to become a practical visionary. Addressing the many barriers to change that exist in established organizations, they present a systematic approach to overcoming them that includes: The principles and mind-set that allow leadership teams to look beyond typical short-term planning horizons A method for turning emerging challenges into the growth opportunities that can define an organization's future A step-by-step approach for translating a vision into a strategic plan that teams can align around and commit to Ways to ensure that visionary thinking becomes a repeatable organizational capability As practical as it is inspiring, Lead from the Future is the guide you and your team need to develop a vision and translate it into transformative growth.
Author : Greg Clingham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 38,95 MB
Release : 2002-09-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521816114
Examines Johnson's writing in relation to eighteenth-century thought on literature, history, fiction and law.
Author : Philip Smallwood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 44,29 MB
Release : 2023-10-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1009369989
A compelling case for the importance of the heart and emotions over that of critical theory in Johnson's literary criticism.
Author : John T. Lynch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 24,41 MB
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 052119010X
A work of reference on 'the age of Johnson', putting literature in the context of the society that produced it.
Author : Jack Lynch
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 705 pages
File Size : 47,64 MB
Release : 2022-09-22
Category :
ISBN : 0198794665
No major author worked in more genres than Samuel Johnson--essays, poetry, fiction, criticism, biography, scholarly editing, lexicography, translation, sermons, journalism. His works are more extensive than those of any other canonical English writer, and no earlier writer's life was documented as thoroughly by contemporaries. Because it's so difficult to know him thoroughly, people have made do with surrogates and simplifications. But Johnson was much more complicated than the popular image of 'Dr. Johnson' suggests: socially conservative but also one of the most radical abolitionists of his age, a firm believer in social hierarchy but an outspoken supporter of women intellectuals, an uncompromising Christian moralist but also a penetrating critic of family structures. Labels fit him poorly. In The Oxford Handbook of Samuel Johnson, an international team of thirty-six scholars offers the most comprehensive examination ever attempted of one of the most complex figures in English literature. The book's first section examines Johnson's life and the texts of his works; the second, organized by genre, explores all his major works and many of his minor ones; the third, organized by topic, covers the subjects that were most important to him as a writer, as a thinker, and as a moralist.
