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Record Nr.

UNINA9910886093003321

Autore

Tomarken Edward L

Titolo

Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Poets : Ethical Literary Criticism / / by Edward L. Tomarken

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2024

ISBN

3-031-61842-4

Edizione

[1st ed. 2024.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (177 pages)

Collana

Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Cultures of Print, , 2634-6524

Disciplina

828.609

Soggetti

Literature - History and criticism

Literature, Modern - 18th century

Literary form

Literary Criticism

Eighteenth-Century Literature

Literary Genre

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: Why Genre -- Chapter 2: A Literary Critical Tragedy: The Interpretive Turn In The Life Of Savage -- Chapter 3: Johnson On Metaphysical Poetry And Pastoral: Genre In Relation To Value Judgements And History -- Chapter 4: Genre Combination And Interpretation: Johnson On Paradise Lost -- Chapter 5: Genre And Periodization: Macro- And Micro-History In -- Chapter 6: The Rise Of Literary Criticism As A Genre -- Chapter 7: Life And Literature -- Chapter 8: Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This open access book seeks to explain how the literary commentary of the Lives of the Poets speaks to us today because of its ethical goals. Edward Tomarken elucidates this element of Johnson’s literary criticism by using Ralph Cohen’s genre method, the topic of Chapter One, “Why Genre”. Chapters two to five address the most prevalent genres of the Lives: tragedy, metaphysical poetry, the epic, the pastoral elegy, and the mock epic. Chapter six considers the rise of literary criticism as a genre. Chapter Seven demonstrates how ethical genre criticism relates



literature to life. And the final chapter explains why, although Johnson considers ‘moral’ and ‘ethical’ as nearly interchangeable terms, Tomarken prefers ‘ethical’ because it relates genre criticism to present problems in literary and non-literary worlds.