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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... digression- " A Digression in Praise of Digressions " -mocks this practice of increasing bulk without any comparable increases in substance , the increase of bulk re- mains despite the mockery . As the satiric object and the satire ...
... digression- " A Digression in Praise of Digressions " -mocks this practice of increasing bulk without any comparable increases in substance , the increase of bulk re- mains despite the mockery . As the satiric object and the satire ...
Page 77
... Digression on Madness , " the praise of the moderns has been an amusing , if tart , exercise in illogicality . Moderns are aberrants who are condescendingly praised and sneered at by the narrator . But in the " Digression on Madness ...
... Digression on Madness , " the praise of the moderns has been an amusing , if tart , exercise in illogicality . Moderns are aberrants who are condescendingly praised and sneered at by the narrator . But in the " Digression on Madness ...
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... digressions and tale in the earlier portions of the work are balanced by the- matic continuities . Section 2 ends with the brothers ' elaborate misinterpretations of the will , and section 3 is the digression on critics . In section 4 ...
... digressions and tale in the earlier portions of the work are balanced by the- matic continuities . Section 2 ends with the brothers ' elaborate misinterpretations of the will , and section 3 is the digression on critics . In section 4 ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Authority of Satire | 29 |
The Hermeneutics of Self | 39 |
Copyright | |
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