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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Another Polished, Careful Effort,
By "jboswell2" (Powell, OH USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: History of the Commentary on Selected Writings of Samuel Johnson (Literary Criticism in Perspective) (Paperback)
I have all of Tomarken's books. As a Johnson hobbyist, it encourages me to see how carefully Tomarken has studied his legacy. The last few books were about Johnson himself, but now Tomarken is using his quick wit and sharp intelligence to survey Johnson's legacy as it exists in criticism. I think Tomarken would be the first to admit that all criticism competes with the work it studies; this work, then, has the difficult yet enviable task of contending with both the titan Johnson himself and the nearly equally titanic bulk of those who would review, praise, or belittle him. Tomarken doesn't suffer fools glady, and the book is worth reading for no other reason than the facility with which he dispatches the ignorant, the ill-informed, and the insipid. All in all, not really a book for the Harry Potter set, or even for the idiots who have admitted Alice Walker and E.L. Doctorow to the literary canon - rather, this is a a bonsai of a book, obsessively groomed, fanatically detailed, lovingly grown to maturity. |
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Goethe Yearbook 10 by Simon Richter (Hardcover - May 2, 2001)
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