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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... Folly , Walter Kaiser shows that Erasmus's Praise of Folly was a departure from the methods of previous mock encomiums : " What would have been astonish- ing to the reader of 1511. . . is the fact that here the ridiculous is praising ...
... Folly , Walter Kaiser shows that Erasmus's Praise of Folly was a departure from the methods of previous mock encomiums : " What would have been astonish- ing to the reader of 1511. . . is the fact that here the ridiculous is praising ...
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Author and Authority Everett Zimmerman. tries but ingratiates her folly and its bad repute by her wit . She makes her self - praise a jest , not an embarrassment : " What can be more proper than that Folly be her own trumpet ? For who ...
Author and Authority Everett Zimmerman. tries but ingratiates her folly and its bad repute by her wit . She makes her self - praise a jest , not an embarrassment : " What can be more proper than that Folly be her own trumpet ? For who ...
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... Folly and that of the tale - teller differ , however . Folly is aware that praise of folly , especially by Folly , is risible , and she assumes that there is an inherent satirical tendency in her form . Her goal is to mitigate the ...
... Folly and that of the tale - teller differ , however . Folly is aware that praise of folly , especially by Folly , is risible , and she assumes that there is an inherent satirical tendency in her form . Her goal is to mitigate the ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Authority of Satire | 29 |
The Hermeneutics of Self | 39 |
Copyright | |
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