Samuel Johnson on Shakespeare: The Discipline of Criticism - Couverture rigide

Tomarken, Edward

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0820313580 ISBN 13 : 9780820313580

Editeur : University of Georgia Press, 1991

Synopsis

Tomarken provides a study of Johnson's "Notes to Shakespeare", showing how they raise issues of direct concern to modern critics and theoreticians. He focuses on eight plays to demonstrate the range of Johnson's editorial and critical abilities: "Henry IV", "Troilus and Cressida", "Twelfth Night", "The Taming of the Shrew", "King Lear", "The Tempest", "Hamlet", and "Macbeth". Each chapter, devoted to single play, moves from the particular to the general - from specific remarks about the play in the "Notes", to related theoretical statements in the "Preface", and finally, to an axiom of literary theory. Ranging from a formulation concerning ideology in criticism to a reconsideration of aesthetic empathy, these axioms are, Tomarken contends, essential to literary criticism as a discipline and manifest Johnson's relevance to modern criticism.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

EDWARD TOMARKEN is a professor of English at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. His books include Genre and Ethics: The Education of an Eighteenth-Century Critic; As You Like It from 1600 to the Present: Critical Essays, A History of the Commentary on Selected Writings of Samuel Johnson; and Johnson, Rasselas, and the Choice of Criticism. Tomarken's current project is a book on cinema and literary theory.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Georgia Press
• Date d'édition: 1991
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0820313580
• ISBN 13: 9780820313580
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 216
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible