Biography as Exorcism of the Subversive Other: Samuel Johnson's Life of Savage
Resource
中外文學, 36(3), 133-170
Journal
中外文學
Journal Volume
36
Journal Issue
3
Pages
133-170
Date Issued
2007-09
Date
2007-09
Author(s)
Chang, H.K.
Abstract
The essay is a project of reinterpreting Samuel Johnson's Life of Savage. The project attempts to reread the biography in a historical context of social and cultural instability, in which changes in various aspects of life caused discursive wars between the stench defenders of long established values and institutions and the enthusiastic progressive champions of the newly innovated. The reading is to be conducted in light of concepts, such as semiosis, and the logic of supplementarity. It is expected that the reading will bring new light to the fundamental conflicts at issue in the discursive wars, and demonstrate how Johnson employed “biography” as a discursive strategy of exorcism for the benefit of his middling readers in a world in which values had become alarmingly fluid.
Subjects
姜生
薩維吉傳
腐化論
金融革命
惡母親的修辭
傳記
符號持續重組
添補邏輯
機器神
照鏡效果
文本化
Samuel Johnson
Life of Savage
biography
discourse of corruption
financial revolution
semiosis
logic of supplementarity
mirror effect
exorcism
SDGs
Type
journal article
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