Charles W Johnson

Biographic Data

ID3586804
NAMECharles W Johnson
GIVEN NAMESCharles W
FAMILY NAMEJohnson
SIGNATUREJOHNSON C W
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Tennessee at Knoxville
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS14
TOTAL CITATIONS3
WORKS AS AUTHOR14
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1926
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2004
H-INDEX1

  • From Narrow Complaint to Broad Celebration

    Nibir K Ghosh, Charles W Johnson et al.ARTICLEMELUS Multi-Ethnic Literature of…2004

    One 0f America's pre-eminent writers and thinkers, Charles Richard Johnson, a PhD in Philosophy and a 1998 MacArthur Fellow, is the author of four novels Faith and the Good Thing (1974), Oxherding Tale (1982), Middle Passage (1990), and Dreamer (1998); two collections of short stories, The Sorcerer's Apprentice (1986) and Soulcatcher and Other Stories (2001); a work of aesthetics, Being and Race: Black Writing Since 1970 (1988); Tunaing the Wheel…

  • World and Life as One

    Charles W Johnson, Martin StokhofARTICLEThe German Quarterly2003

    This book explores in detail the relation between ontology and ethics in the early work of Ludwig Wittgenstein, notably the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and, to a lesser extent, the Notebooks 1914-1916. Self-contained and requiring no prior knowledge of Wittgenstein's thought, it is the first book-length argument that his views on ethics decisively shaped his ontological and semantic thought. The book's main thesis is twofold. It argues that th…

  • Better than Counting Sheep

    Charles W Johnson, Charles JohnsonARTICLECallaloo2001

    Callaloo - Volume 24, Number 4, Fall 2001

  • John Gardner as Mentor

    Charles W Johnson, Charles JohnsonARTICLEAfrican American Review1996

    On a rainy evening in September, 1972, when was 24 years old and a master's degree philosophy student at Southern Illinois University, drifted quite by accident, and with no knowledge of how radically my life would be changed, into the orbit of novelist John Gardner. Naturally, knew of him before we met in his workshop, Professional Writing, which convened at his farmhouse, stocked with horses and dogs and musical instruments, on Boskeydell Road …

  • There's a War to Be Won

    Charles W Johnson, Geoffrey PerretARTICLEJournal of American History1992

  • Signifying Possibility

    Jerry W Ward, Robert E Fox et al.ARTICLECallaloo1989

  • Whole Sight

    Charles W Johnson, Charles JohnsonARTICLECallaloo1984Cited by: 1

  • Oil Booms

    Charles W Johnson, Roger M Olien et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1983

  • City Behind a Fence

    Richard G Hewlett, Charles W Johnson et al.ARTICLEThe American Historical Review1982

    Oak Ridge, Tennessee, was created by the U.S. government during World War II to aid in the construction of the first atomic bomb. Drawing on oral history and previously classified material, this book portrays the patterns of daily life in this unique setting.

  • City Behind a Fence

    Wilmon H Droze, Charles W Johnson et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1982

  • City behind a Fence

    Mark I Gelfand, Charles W Johnson et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History1982Cited by: 2

    Journal Article City behind a Fence: Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 1942–1946. By Charles W. Johnson and Charles O. Jackson. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1981. xxiii + 248 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliographical essay, and index. Cloth, $18.50; paper, $9.50.) Get access Mark I. Gelfane Mark I. Gelfane Boston College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 68, Issue …

  • The Constableship of Walter of Gloucester

    Charles W Johnson, Charles JohnsonARTICLEThe English Historical Review1934

  • Borough and Town

    Charles W Johnson, Charles Johnson et al.ARTICLEThe Economic History Review1934

  • Rewiews of Books

    M R James, Charles W Johnson et al.ARTICLEThe English Historical Review1926

    Journal Article Rewiews of Books Get access Regesten der Bischöfe von Strassburg. Bd. I, Erster Thl., Die Elsässischen Annalen der Stauferzeit. Eine quellenkritische Einleitung HERMANN von BLOCH. Zweiter Thi., Regesten . . . bis zum Jahre 1202. PAUL von WENTZCKE. Bd. II, Lingn. 1-3, Regesten. 1202–1273. ALFRED von HESSEL und MANFRED KREBS. (Innsbruck: Wagner, 1908.) CHARLES JOHNSON CHARLES JOHNSON Search for other works by this author on: Oxford …