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The Boswellian Hero (Paperback)
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Boswell's "Life of Johnson," "Tour of the Hebrides," and "Tour to
Corsica" are controlled, argues William Dowling, by "a single
conception of the heroic character, one that reaches beyond the
particular narrative situation to a final vision of man's dilemma
in the modern world." Samuel Johnson and Pascal Paoli, the great
protagonists of the three major narratives Boswell published during
his lifetime, are heroic spirits who manage to survive in an age of
spiritual disintegration only by dwelling within imperiled private
worlds of coherence and belief. "The Boswellian Hero," the first
comprehensive thematic study of Boswellian narrative, is also a
work with strong theoretical implications for students of biography
as a genre. Biography exists as literature, according to Dowling,
only in relation to formal or objective interpretations of its
meaning--to read the "Life of Johnson" as a literary work is to
dissociate its biographical hero from any "real" or "historical"
Samuel Johnson in the same way one dissociates Shakespeare's
"Richard III" from Richard III of England. Although "The Boswellian
Hero" promises to establish its importance in Boswell studies
immediately, it will also be of significant interest to readers
concerned with the hero in literature, with biography as a
narrative form, and with the complex theoretical problem of
"factual" or "historical" literature.
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