Language and Logos in Boswell's "Life of Johnson" (Princeton Legacy Library): 1041 - Softcover

Dowling, William C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0691615209 ISBN 13: 9780691615202

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 2014

Synopsis

In this deconstructionist interpretation of a major eighteenth-century work, William Dowling analyzes Boswell's Life of Johnson as a paradigm of antithetical structure in narrative, and develops a grammar of discontinuity" for interpreting other texts as well. Originally published in 1981. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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About the Author

William C. Dowling is University Distinguished Professor of English and American Literature at Rutgers University, and the 2012 recipient of the Robert Maynard Hutchins Award for his contributions to the cause of integrity in intercollegiate athletics.. Of the ten books he has published, the most recent include Oliver Wendell Holmes in Paris: Medicine, Theology, and the Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, Literary Federalism in the Age of Jefferson, and The Senses of the Text: Intensional Semantics and Literary Theory. He has also written widely on college sports in such publications as The Chronicle of Higher Education and Academic Questions, and about challenges to the system of scholarly communication in the Journal of Scholarly Publishing.

About this edition

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0691615209
• ISBN 13: 9780691615202
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 206