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Samuel Johnson on Shakespeare

The Discipline of Criticism

By: Edward Tomarken

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Samuel Johnson on Shakespeare

The Discipline of Criticism

By: Edward Tomarken

Since the first appearance of Samuel Johnson's edition of Shakespeare's drama in 1765, its Preface has often been published separately, while the Notes have been treated as miscellaneous and fragmentary. As a result, few modern readers realize that the Notes in fact contain coherent interpretations of most of the plays and that many portions of the Preface are generalizations related to those readings. Scholars who have examined the Notes carefully have almost always used them in studies of larger issues, such as Johnson's morality or rhetoric. In this book, Edward Tomarken provides the first full-length study of the Notes to Shakespeare, showing how they raise issues of direct concern to modern critics and theoreticians. While referring to Johnson's notes on all the Shakespearean dramas, Tomarken focuses on eight plays--Henry IV, Troilus and Cressida, Twelfth Night, The Taming of the Shrew, King Lear, The Tempest, Hamlet, and Macbeth--to demonstrate the range of Johnson's editorial and critical abilities. Each chapter, devoted to a single play, moves from the particular to the general-from specific remarks about the play in the Notes, to related theoretical statements in the Preface, and finally to an axiom of literary theory. Ranging from a formulation concerning ideology in criticism to a reconsideration of aesthetic empathy, these axioms are, Tomarken contends, essential to literary criticism as a discipline and manifest Johnson's relevance to modern criticism. The conception of criticism that emerges in this book goes well beyond the theoretical premises of the eighteenth century. Tomarken submits that the ethical dimension of criticism-the moral aspect so fundamental to Johnson but so foreign to modern critics-can point to a way of mediating between the ideological differences that have become so divisive in modern criticism and theory.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820333867

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Genre and Ethics

The Education of an Eighteenth-century Critic

By: Edward Tomarken

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Genre and Ethics

The Education of an Eighteenth-century Critic

By: Edward Tomarken

The study addresses the following kinds of questions: Why does genre need ethics? Why does ethics need genre? How is ethics related to and distinguished from ideology as currently used in cultural studies? How does a generic ethical method come to terms with history and historical change? How is a generic ethical method related to religion? Does genre reinforce the concept of the ethical agent? This book will therefore have a broad audience, including scholars whose fields range from the Renaissance to the present, theorists and philosophers whose interests include ethics, cultural studies, and ideologies, and educationists pursuing methods for graduates and undergraduates. The autobiographical introduction serves as the "hook," as our creative writers say, for this audience. Generically, it is experimental, being at once scholarly, pedagogical, and autobiographical."--BOOK JACKET.

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University of Delaware Press

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0874137675

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Why theory?

Cultural critique in film and television

By: Edward Tomarken

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Why theory?

Cultural critique in film and television

By: Edward Tomarken

Edward Tomarken's previous book, Filmspeak, was a study of literary theory in relation to contemporary mainstream films. Some of the abstruse ideas of early literary theorists (1950–70) had in fact permeated our thinking to such an extent that both films and theories enriched and shed light upon one another. One early response to Filmspeak was the question 'Why theory?’, a remark that provides the title of this new and exciting exploration of literature. In pursuit of an answer, Tomarken turns to the 'second generation' of critics (1970–2000), and analyses television programmes as well as films. He considers scholars such as Clifford Geertz and Martha Nussbaum who saw themselves as working in the field of cultural studies. Why theory? thus has a dual focus – on both culture and literary theory. The result of integrating cultural ideas with media interpretation sees Tomarken grapple with the question of the title: theory has become a part of our cultural life.

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Manchester University Press

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1526118025

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9781526118028

Filmspeak

How to Understand Literary Theory by Watching Movies

By: Edward Tomarken

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How to Understand Literary Theory by Watching Movies

By: Edward Tomarken

A highly original book that demonstrates how ideas stemming from complex literary theory can be found in even the most mainstream movies.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0826428924

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Johnson, Rasselas, and the Choice of Criticism

By: Edward Tomarken

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Johnson, Rasselas, and the Choice of Criticism

By: Edward Tomarken

Although Rasselas has received more critical commentary than almost any other work by Samuel Johnson, Edward Tomarken's book is the first full length study to focus on his tale of the Prince of Abyssinia. This anomaly arises, as Tomarken shows, because Rasselas has remained resistant to the customary critical approaches of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries, consistently eliciting new kinds of insights and raising new sorts of problems. Tomarken' s contribution is a new methodology to explain this phenomenon. He sees Johnson's early writings, London and Irene, as instances of the writer trying with only partial success to achieve what he first realized in The Vanity of Human Wishes, a means of permitting literary form to refer to conduct. Later works, such as The Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland, are viewed as further developments of this method, which achieved its fullest expression in Rasselas and the Life of Pope. Such a reading of Johnson develops an aesthetic that operates on the margins between the literary and the extra-literary. Although Johnson's own critical view was unable to accommodate such a position, Tomarken shows that in practice he moved toward it by a process of trial and error manifest in his poetry and narratives. When raised to the level of critical method, this approach goes beyond the assumptions not only of Johnson's day but also of our own. Tomarken's theoretical coda demonstrates how the choices of current critical theory, like those in the marriage debate in Rasselas, can be understood to interact with one another. Specifically, he proposes a dialectical relationship for two approaches hermeneutics and structuralism-usually seen as opposed to one another. This innovative study will interest not only Johnson scholars but all those concerned with critical theory.

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University Press of Kentucky

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081318570X

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9780813185705

Statistical Reasoning in the Behavioral Sciences

By: Bruce M. King,Patrick J. Rosopa,Edward W. Minium

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Statistical Reasoning in the Behavioral Sciences

By: Bruce M. King,Patrick J. Rosopa,Edward W. Minium

Cited by more than 300 scholars, Statistical Reasoning in the Behavioral Sciences continues to provide streamlined resources and easy-to-understand information on statistics in the behavioral sciences and related fields, including psychology, education, human resources management, and sociology. Students and professionals in the behavioral sciences will develop an understanding of statistical logic and procedures, the properties of statistical devices, and the importance of the assumptions underlying statistical tools. This revised and updated edition continues to follow the recommendations of the APA Task Force on Statistical Inference and greatly expands the information on testing hypotheses about single means. The Seventh Edition moves from a focus on the use of computers in statistics to a more precise look at statistical software. The “Point of Controversy” feature embedded throughout the text provides current discussions of exciting and hotly debated topics in the field. Readers will appreciate how the comprehensive graphs, tables, cartoons and photographs lend vibrancy to all of the material covered in the text.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1119379733

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Cognitive Behavioural Processes Across Psychological Disorders

A Transdiagnostic Approach to Research and Treatment

By: Allison G. Harvey,Edward Watkins,Warren Mansell

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Cognitive Behavioural Processes Across Psychological Disorders

A Transdiagnostic Approach to Research and Treatment

By: Allison G. Harvey,Edward Watkins,Warren Mansell

Readership: Academics, clinical psychologists and psychiatrists, cognitive behavioural therapists, and undergraduate and postgraduate students in clinical psychology

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0198528884

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Johnson, Rasselas, and the Choice of Criticism

By: Edward Tomarken

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Johnson, Rasselas, and the Choice of Criticism

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University Press of Kentucky

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0813161770

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Filmspeak

How to Understand Literary Theory by Watching Movies

By: Edward Tomarken

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How to Understand Literary Theory by Watching Movies

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Samuel Johnson on Shakespeare

The Discipline of Criticism

By: Edward Tomarken

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The Discipline of Criticism

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University of Georgia Press

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Why theory?

Cultural critique in film and television

By: Edward Tomarken

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Cultural critique in film and television

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Manchester University Press

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Genre and Ethics

The Education of an Eighteenth-century Critic

By: Edward Tomarken

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The Education of an Eighteenth-century Critic

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University of Delaware Press

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A History of the Commentary on Selected Writings of Samuel Johnson

By: Edward Tomarken

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A History of the Commentary on Selected Writings of Samuel Johnson

By: Edward Tomarken

A history and analysis of 250 years of critical commentary on selected works of Samuel Johnson.

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Camden House (NY)

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1879751941

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The Tryal of Edward Coleman

By: Edward Coleman

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The Tryal of Edward Coleman

By: Edward Coleman

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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Wentworth Press

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0469155523

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LIFE & REMAINS OF THEODORE EDW

By: Theodore Edward 1788-1841 Hook,R. H. Dalton (Richard Harris Dal Barham

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LIFE & REMAINS OF THEODORE EDW

By: Theodore Edward 1788-1841 Hook,R. H. Dalton (Richard Harris Dal Barham

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1374332313

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EDWARD PLANTAGENET (EDWARD I)

By: Edward 1861-1939 Jenks

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EDWARD PLANTAGENET (EDWARD I)

By: Edward 1861-1939 Jenks

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1361989017

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The Americanization of Edward Bok

The Autobiography of a Dutch Boy Fifty Years After

By: Edward William Bok

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The Americanization of Edward Bok

The Autobiography of a Dutch Boy Fifty Years After

By: Edward William Bok

The Americanization of Edward Bok is an autobiography, told in the third person, that shares the life of a little Dutch boy unceremoniously set down in America unable to make himself understood or even to know what persons were saying; his education extremely limited, practically negligible; and yet, by some curious decree of fate, he was destined to write to the largest body of readers ever addressed by an American editor - the circulation of the magazine he edited running into figures previously unheard of in periodical literature. How all this came about, how such a boy, with every disadvantage to overcome, was able, apparently, to "make good" - this possesses an interest and for some, perhaps, a value which, after all, is the only reason for any book.

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The Floating Press

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177541373X

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