Swift's Narrative Satires: Author and AuthorityCornell University Press, 1983 - 183 pages Swift's Narrative Satires is an analysis of one of the major critical controversies about Swift's works: the relationship of author to text. Everett Zimmerman questions the conventional claim that narrative satire is necessarily a vehicle for conveying final judgments. He maintains instead that Swift requires the reader to search for the principle of authority that validates the satire, thereby implicitly challenging the authority of any author. |
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Page 32
... Christianity , but his argument is an analysis of their actual practical interests , not of their mistakenly assumed ones : as Christianity has no moral effects on this majority , its few practical benefits need not be forgone . Rather ...
... Christianity , but his argument is an analysis of their actual practical interests , not of their mistakenly assumed ones : as Christianity has no moral effects on this majority , its few practical benefits need not be forgone . Rather ...
Page 75
... Christianity shows her betrayal by the mock encomium that she uses to create her dominion . She praises Christianity because it is from her perspective an ex- traordinarily foolish rejection of all that she assumes to be valu- able ...
... Christianity shows her betrayal by the mock encomium that she uses to create her dominion . She praises Christianity because it is from her perspective an ex- traordinarily foolish rejection of all that she assumes to be valu- able ...
Page 86
... Christianity should conform to the Father's will for the purpose of representing the teaching of Christianity . Instead , the focus of concern becomes the advancement of the institu- tions of the church . The narrator's early precise ...
... Christianity should conform to the Father's will for the purpose of representing the teaching of Christianity . Instead , the focus of concern becomes the advancement of the institu- tions of the church . The narrator's early precise ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Authority of Satire | 29 |
The Hermeneutics of Self | 39 |
Copyright | |
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