Dead masters
Subtitle: mentoring and intertextuality in Samuel Johnson
By: Anthony W. Lee
Publisher: Lehigh University Press; Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Bethlehem [Pa.]; Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 262
ISBN-13: 9781611460759; 9781611460766
Subjects: Criticism; Intertextuality; Literature; Knowledge; LITERARY CRITICISM / General; Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.); Sources; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Mentoring in literature; Mentoring of authors; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry; History
Description: "Dead Masters examines the dual issues of mentoring and intertextuality as an integrated phenomenon. Through a series of fresh and novel readings of Johnsonian and Boswellian texts, the book further advances our awareness of the formal complexities of Johnson's writings and the psychological substratum from which they issue"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Mentoring, intertextuality, and Samuel Johnson; title: Johnson's symbolic mentors : Addison, Dryden, and Rambler 86; title: The poetics of gloom : Samuel Johnson as intertextual critic; title: Between texts : intertextual brackets in Johnson's Shakespeare and Milton; title: "Under the dominion of a name" : Johnson's Pope; title: Mentoring and mimicry in Boswell.