
- 208 pages
- English
- PDF
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Language and Logos in Boswell's Life of Johnson
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- 1: World and Antiworld
- 2: Structure and Structurality
- 3: Structure and Absence
- 4: The World as Speech
- 5: Audience as Antithesis
- Epilogue
- Index