Abyssinia's Samuel Johnson

Abyssinia's Samuel Johnson

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Belcher Wendy Laura
Oxford University Press Inc
EAN: 9780199793211
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As a very young man, one of the most celebrated English authors of the eighteenth century translated a tome about Ethiopia. This experience permanently marked Samuel Johnson, leaving traces of the African discourse he encountered in that text in his drama Irene; several of his short stories; and his most famous fiction, Rasselas. In this book, Wendy Laura Belcher provides a much needed perspective in comparative literature and postcolonial studies on the power of the discourse of the other to infuse European texts. Belcher illuminates how the Western literary canon is globally produced by developing the powerful metaphor of spirit possession to posit some texts in the European canon as energumens, texts that are spoken through. Her model of discursive possession offers a new way of theorizing transcultural intertextuality, in particular how Europe's others have co-constituted European representations. Through close readings of primary and secondary sources in English, French, Portuguese, and Ge'ez, Belcher challenges conventional wisdom on Johnson's work, from the inspiration for the name Rasselas and the nature of Johnson's religious beliefs to what makes Rasselas so strange.
EAN 9780199793211
ISBN 0199793212
Typ produktu Pevná vazba
Vydavatel Oxford University Press Inc
Datum vydání 21. června 2012
Stránky 304
Jazyk English
Rozměry 237 x 195 x 25
Země United States
Autoři Belcher Wendy Laura
Ilustrace 4 illustrations