Jonathan Swift: An Introductory EssayMethuen, distributed by Harper & Row, Barnes & Noble Import Division, New York, 1973 - 216 pages |
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... satirist ; detachment of that kind does not mean that the reader excuses himself from the processes of satirical surgery - indeed the surgery can't be effective without some measure of anaesthesia . And , if the satire is to be ...
... satirist ; detachment of that kind does not mean that the reader excuses himself from the processes of satirical surgery - indeed the surgery can't be effective without some measure of anaesthesia . And , if the satire is to be ...
Page 126
... satire has been primarily external , that is , a criticism of absurdities and evils which we think of as outside ourselves . In Brobdingnag the satire turns inwards for its primary targets ; our own failings are probed and exposed by ...
... satire has been primarily external , that is , a criticism of absurdities and evils which we think of as outside ourselves . In Brobdingnag the satire turns inwards for its primary targets ; our own failings are probed and exposed by ...
Page 183
... satire ' on the Motive of publick Good ' ; but Swift is far too wary even to let the motives of the satirist pass by without inspection . Even in satire on Pride there must be an element of vanity ; even this must be dissolved in a ...
... satire ' on the Motive of publick Good ' ; but Swift is far too wary even to let the motives of the satirist pass by without inspection . Even in satire on Pride there must be an element of vanity ; even this must be dissolved in a ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
A Tale of a Tub | 16 |
Other Early Satires | 59 |
Copyright | |
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