Can I read "Steel for the mind" : Samuel Johnson and critical discourse on EtoBox?
"Steel for the mind" : Samuel Johnson and critical discourse by Charles H. Hinnant is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
What is "Steel for the mind" : Samuel Johnson and critical discourse about?
In contrast to the views of many eighteenth-century critics from Addison to Lord Kames, Johnson maintains that mimesis necessarily implies the absence of what it purports to represent and thus can never achieve what Kames calls "ideal presence.".
Who reads "Steel for the mind" : Samuel Johnson and critical discourse?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Charles H. Hinnant
- Publisher
- University of Delaware Press ; Associated University Presses
- Published
- 1994
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780874134926
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, History, Literary Criticism
- Updated
- 2026-03-25