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 102
... Epicurean ethics , although not the Epicurean theories about the physical universe . Swift , however , finds that the ethical and physical systems gain support from each other . As defined by Lucretius , Epicurus's achievement is the ...
... Epicurean ethics , although not the Epicurean theories about the physical universe . Swift , however , finds that the ethical and physical systems gain support from each other . As defined by Lucretius , Epicurus's achievement is the ...
Page 103
... Epicureanism . Erasmus does not , how- ever , deal with Epicurean cosmology . Swift defines a far harsher version of Epicureanism , one not allowing even the possibility of meliorative redefinition . His epistemology allows no flight ...
... Epicureanism . Erasmus does not , how- ever , deal with Epicurean cosmology . Swift defines a far harsher version of Epicureanism , one not allowing even the possibility of meliorative redefinition . His epistemology allows no flight ...
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... Epicurean search for happiness , and further , it shows the meaningless world of Epicurean atomism to be the justification for a far from amiable version of madness . Swift's linking of the Epicurean cosmology and ethics was not ...
... Epicurean search for happiness , and further , it shows the meaningless world of Epicurean atomism to be the justification for a far from amiable version of madness . Swift's linking of the Epicurean cosmology and ethics was not ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Authority of Satire | 29 |
The Hermeneutics of Self | 39 |
Copyright | |
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