Literary Transmission and Authority: Dryden and Other Writers - Couverture souple

Miner, Earl

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0521032016 ISBN 13 : 9780521032018

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

This 1993 book looks at Dryden's literary relationships and implications for questions of literary reception, influence and intertextuality.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Dryden's writings are studded with names, conspicuously those of his literary predecessors and contemporaries. He defined himself as a writer in relation to other writers, and in doing so was something of a pioneer professional man of letters: poet, playwright, critic, prose stylist, England's foremost verse translator, the first literary historian to provide a conception of periods, and what would now be termed a comparatist. This 1993 book looks at Dryden's literary relationships with Ben Jonson and with French authors (notably Corneille), at issues raised by the work thought to be his greatest by Romantic and contemporary readers, Fables Ancient and Modern; and at Samuel Johnson's definition of Dryden, whose biography in Johnson's Lives was the author's favourite. The book has implications for questions of literary reception, influence and intertextuality, as well as for the reputation and context of Dryden himself.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0521032016
• ISBN 13: 9780521032018
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 176
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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