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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... [ Montaigne ] takes on and the action he sets out ring out with distant echoes of divinity . . . . as God is to be found in His book , so Montaigne resides in his . " ' 13 The Essays made available to Swift an intense exploration of the ...
... [ Montaigne ] takes on and the action he sets out ring out with distant echoes of divinity . . . . as God is to be found in His book , so Montaigne resides in his . " ' 13 The Essays made available to Swift an intense exploration of the ...
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... ( Montaigne , II , 1 , p . 159 ) . Thus Montaigne uses his volume to create an order , not of con- sistency , but of unsuppressed inconsistency brought into the compass of a vast book . The Essays provide a prototype for some aspects of ...
... ( Montaigne , II , 1 , p . 159 ) . Thus Montaigne uses his volume to create an order , not of con- sistency , but of unsuppressed inconsistency brought into the compass of a vast book . The Essays provide a prototype for some aspects of ...
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... Montaigne : In moulding this figure upon myself , I have been so often con- strained to temper and compose myself in ... [ Montaigne , II , 18 , p . 323 ] 14 To achieve this " consubstantiality , " Montaigne rejects the con- ventional ...
... Montaigne : In moulding this figure upon myself , I have been so often con- strained to temper and compose myself in ... [ Montaigne , II , 18 , p . 323 ] 14 To achieve this " consubstantiality , " Montaigne rejects the con- ventional ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Authority of Satire | 29 |
The Hermeneutics of Self | 39 |
Copyright | |
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