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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... English Literary History 33 ( 1966 ) , 198-227 , discusses the relationship of Swift's Tale to issues of biblical interpre- tation in the seventeenth century . He argues that the putative author of the Tale is primarily a critic of ...
... English Literary History 33 ( 1966 ) , 198-227 , discusses the relationship of Swift's Tale to issues of biblical interpre- tation in the seventeenth century . He argues that the putative author of the Tale is primarily a critic of ...
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... English Literary History 33 ( 1966 ) , 198–227 , discusses many parallels between A Tale of a Tub and the issues of bib- lical criticism that were current in Swift's time . I differ with Levine's identifi- cation of the narrator as the ...
... English Literary History 33 ( 1966 ) , 198–227 , discusses many parallels between A Tale of a Tub and the issues of bib- lical criticism that were current in Swift's time . I differ with Levine's identifi- cation of the narrator as the ...
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... English - History and criticism . 3. Swift , Jonathan , 1667-1745 . Tale of a tub . 4. Swift , Jonathan , 1667-1745 . Gulliver's travels . 5. Narration ( Rhetoric ) I. Title . PR3728.S2Z55 1983 823'.5 ISBN 0-8014-1595-0 83-45176 OCTO ...
... English - History and criticism . 3. Swift , Jonathan , 1667-1745 . Tale of a tub . 4. Swift , Jonathan , 1667-1745 . Gulliver's travels . 5. Narration ( Rhetoric ) I. Title . PR3728.S2Z55 1983 823'.5 ISBN 0-8014-1595-0 83-45176 OCTO ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Authority of Satire | 29 |
The Hermeneutics of Self | 39 |
Copyright | |
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