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Imitation (Routledge Revivals) (Paperback)
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Imitation (Routledge Revivals) (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Revivals
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In this book, first published in 1984, Joel Weinsheimer advocates
revitalizing the practice of imitating literature as a mode
appropriate for literary critics as well as artists. The book is
not only about imitation; it is itself an imitation, specifically
of Samuel Johnson. As both the focus and mode of presentation,
imitation is presented not merely as a kind of poetry that once
flourished in the eighteenth century but also as a kind of
criticism particularly relevant today. Applying arguments from
philosophy of science, deconstruction, psycho-analysis, literary
theory, semiotics and hermeneutics, Weinsheimer shows that the
three main currents of thought responsible for forcing imitation
underground were empiricism, originalism and historicism. The three
central chapters of the book concentrate on their representatives:
John Locke, Edward Young and Thomas Warton. The author then applies
Johnsonian arguments - supported by those of Gadamer Peirce - to
challenge those objections and re-establish imitation as an
intellectually defensible mode of writing.
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