Jonathan Swift: An Introductory EssayMethuen, distributed by Harper & Row, Barnes & Noble Import Division, New York, 1973 - 216 pages |
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... ourselves show over this issue or that ; our own moral indignation at the plan to turn children into meat for rich men's tables ; the words we ourselves use when we express our indignation . Are these things really of a piece with our ...
... ourselves show over this issue or that ; our own moral indignation at the plan to turn children into meat for rich men's tables ; the words we ourselves use when we express our indignation . Are these things really of a piece with our ...
Page 126
... ourselves . In Brobdingnag the satire turns inwards for its primary targets ; our own failings are probed and exposed by the mercilessly detached gigantic presences around us . Gulliver is constantly on show in both Lilliput and ...
... ourselves . In Brobdingnag the satire turns inwards for its primary targets ; our own failings are probed and exposed by the mercilessly detached gigantic presences around us . Gulliver is constantly on show in both Lilliput and ...
Page 154
... ourselves with the horses and refuse to identify ourselves with the Yahoos ; Gulliver is himself so completely confused , bewildered and denatured by the experience that we can't use him as a lifeline any more . So the fourth book ...
... ourselves with the horses and refuse to identify ourselves with the Yahoos ; Gulliver is himself so completely confused , bewildered and denatured by the experience that we can't use him as a lifeline any more . So the fourth book ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
A Tale of a Tub | 16 |
Other Early Satires | 59 |
Copyright | |
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