Literary Transmission and Authority - Dryden and Other Writers

Klappentext This 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Greg Clingham, David Kramer, Earl Miner, Earl Brady Miner
• Collaboration: Jennifer Brady (Editeur), Earl Miner (Editeur)
• Edition: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 23.11.2006
• EAN: 9780521032018
• ISBN: 978-0-521-03201-8
• Pages: 176
• Thème: Cambridge Studies in Eighteent
• Catégories: Littérature > Poésie, théâtre; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Linguistique et littérature > Linguistique et littérature anglaises