From the publisher’s description:
In this deconstructionist interpretation of a major eighteenth-century work, William Dowling analyzes Boswell’s Life of Johnson as a paradigm of antithetical structure in narrative, and develops a grammar of discontinuity for interpreting other texts as well.
Dowling, William C. (NHC Fellow, 1979–80). Language and Logos in Boswell’s Life of Johnson. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1981. ISBN 0691064555.