 | Harold Bloom - 1987 - 290 pages
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 | Leopold Damrosch - 1989 - 276 pages
...that invent experience which no one has ever had. "The value of every story," Johnson told Boswell, "depends on its being true. A story is a picture either...general: if it be false, it is a picture of nothing" (Life 2.:433). Two notions of truth are invoked here: neoclassical generality, which summarizes the... | |
 | H. B. Nisbet, Claude Rawson - 2005 - 978 pages
...seems to be the one that Johnson usually has in mind. 'The value of every story', he told Boswell, 'depends on its being true. A story is a picture either...general: if it be false, it is a picture of nothing' (Life, II, p. 433). Whether the 'picture' represents a specific individual or the features that are... | |
 | Iris Origo - 1999 - 308 pages
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 | Robert Murphy - 2001 - 360 pages
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 | Robert Murphy - 2001 - 356 pages
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 | James Boswell - 2005 - 660 pages
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The value of every story depends on its being true. A story is a picture either of an individual or of human nature in general : if it be false, it is a picture of nothing. 
