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Literary Transmission and Authority Earl Miner

Literary Transmission and Authority By Earl Miner

Literary Transmission and Authority by Earl Miner


Summary

Dryden defined himself as a writer in relation to other writers, and in doing so was something of a pioneer professional man of letters. This 1993 book looks at Dryden's literary relationships and implications for questions of literary reception, influence and intertextuality, as well as for the reputation and context of Dryden himself.

Literary Transmission and Authority Summary

Literary Transmission and Authority: Dryden and Other Writers by Earl Miner

Dryden's writings are studded with names, conspicuously those of his literary predecessors and contemporaries. He defined himself as a writer in relation to other writers, and in doing so was something of a pioneer professional man of letters: poet, playwright, critic, prose stylist, England's foremost verse translator, the first literary historian to provide a conception of periods, and what would now be termed a comparatist. This 1993 book looks at Dryden's literary relationships with Ben Jonson and with French authors (notably Corneille), at issues raised by the work thought to be his greatest by Romantic and contemporary readers, Fables Ancient and Modern; and at Samuel Johnson's definition of Dryden, whose biography in Johnson's Lives was the author's favourite. The book has implications for questions of literary reception, influence and intertextuality, as well as for the reputation and context of Dryden himself.

Table of Contents

Contributing authors; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: borrowed plumage, varied plumage Earl Miner; 1. Dryden and negotiations of literary succession and precession Jennifer Brady; 2. Onely victory in him: the imperial Dryden David B. Kramer; 3. Ovid reformed: issues of Ovid, fables, morals and the second epic in Fables Ancient and Modern Earl Miner; 4. Another and the Same: Johnson's Dryden Greg Clingham; Index.

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NLS9780521032018
9780521032018
0521032016
Literary Transmission and Authority: Dryden and Other Writers by Earl Miner
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Paperback
Cambridge University Press
2006-11-23
176
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