Johnson the Philologist

Johnson the Philologist PDF Author: Daisuke Nagashima
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Category : Philologists
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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Johnson the Philologist

Johnson the Philologist PDF Author: Daisuke Nagashima
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Category : Philologists
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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Momentary Monsters

Momentary Monsters PDF Author: Walter Ralph Johnson
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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Anniversary Essays on Johnson's Dictionary

Anniversary Essays on Johnson's Dictionary PDF Author: John T. Lynch
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521848442
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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A collection of original essays celebrating the 250th anniversary of the publication of the Dictionary.

The Philosophy of History

The Philosophy of History PDF Author: Friedrich von Schlegel
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 554

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Milton Among the Philosophers

Milton Among the Philosophers PDF Author: Stephen M. Fallon
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801473678
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 286

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While Johnson charged that Milton "unhappily perplexed his poetry with his philosophy," Stephen M. Fallon argues that the relationship between Milton's philosophy and the poetry of Paradise Lost is a happy one. The author examines Milton's thought in light of the competing philosophical systems that filled the vacuum left by the repudiation of Aristotle in the seventeenth century. In what has become the classic account of Milton's animist materialism, Fallon revises our understanding of Milton's philosophical sophistication. The book offers a new interpretation of the War in Heaven in Paradise Lost as a clash of metaphysical systems, with free will hanging in the balance.

Johnson's Universal Cyclopaedia

Johnson's Universal Cyclopaedia PDF Author:
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 970

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Wordwatching

Wordwatching PDF Author: Julian Burnside
Publisher: Scribe Publications
ISBN: 1922247170
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 353

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A bonzer discussion of the strange pedigree of the naughty, nice, and, sometimes, obscene English language. We live in a torrent of words — from radio and television, books and newspapers, and now from the internet. But, as Julian Burnside reminds us in this new edition of the bestselling Wordwatching, words are a source of both pleasure and power, and can be deployed for good or for ill. Comprising many essays, dealing with a vast array of subjects as diverse as deadlines, fancy words, the problems with ‘issue’, odd sounds, oxymorons, and the fallacy of ‘wading in’, Wordwatching is a fascinating demonstration of the power and the pleasure of the English language. Told with Julian Burnside’s sparkling wit, it is lively, illuminating, and perfect for every book-lover.

Defining the World

Defining the World PDF Author: Henry Hitchings
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429928948
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 384

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“[A] marvelous account” of Johnson’s towering achievement, nearly a decade of labor and linguistic fact-finding, presented by “a buoyant, zestful writer” (The Boston Globe). By the early eighteenth century, France and Italy had impressive lexicons, but there was no authoritative dictionary of English. Impelled by a mixture of national pride and commercial expedience, the prodigious polymath Samuel Johnson embraced the task, turning over the garret of his London home to the creation of his own giant dictionary. Johnson imagined that he could complete the job in three years. But the complexity of English meant that his estimate was wildly inadequate. Only after he had expended nearly a decade of his prime on the task did the dictionary finally appear—magisterial yet quirky, dogmatic but generous of spirit, and steeped in the richness of English literature. It would come to be seen as the most important British cultural monument of the eighteenth century, and its influence fanned out across Europe and throughout Britain’s colonies—including, crucially, America. Brilliantly entertaining and enlightening, Defining the World is the story of Johnson’s heroic endeavor. In alphabetically sequenced chapters, Henry Hitchings describes Johnson’s adventure—his ambition and vision, his moments of despair, the mistakes he made along the way, and his ultimate triumph.

Illustrations of English Philology. Consisting of I. A Critical Examination of Dr. Johnson's Dictionary. II. Remarks on Mr. Dugald Stewart's Essay "On the Tendency of Some Late Philological Speculations". To which is Now Added, an Advertisement; Containing Extracts from the English Lexicon, Publishing in the Encyclopaedia Metropolitana, and from the English Dictionary of Dr. Johnson

Illustrations of English Philology. Consisting of I. A Critical Examination of Dr. Johnson's Dictionary. II. Remarks on Mr. Dugald Stewart's Essay Author: Charles RICHARDSON (LL.D.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 324

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Johnson's Universal Cyclopedia

Johnson's Universal Cyclopedia PDF Author: Charles Kendall Adams
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 984

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