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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... tale in his digressions : critics are the subject of one of the digressions , and the putative author , who ... Tale of a Tub ( with a Digression on a Mad Modern Critic ) , " ELH : A Journal of English Literary History 33 ( 1966 ) , 198 ...
... tale in his digressions : critics are the subject of one of the digressions , and the putative author , who ... Tale of a Tub ( with a Digression on a Mad Modern Critic ) , " ELH : A Journal of English Literary History 33 ( 1966 ) , 198 ...
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... Tale in 1710 and followed it by a refutation signed " Lambin ” : “ An Error ( with Submission ) of the learned ... Tale of a Tub " ( Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1961 ) , believes that the tale and digressions are unconnected ...
... Tale in 1710 and followed it by a refutation signed " Lambin ” : “ An Error ( with Submission ) of the learned ... Tale of a Tub " ( Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1961 ) , believes that the tale and digressions are unconnected ...
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... Tale knows . The rhetorical issue involved is that of the tale- teller's function : Does he represent Swift's bafflement or his exemplary warning ? But the more inclusive issue is epistemo- logical . Readers who wish to find some ...
... Tale knows . The rhetorical issue involved is that of the tale- teller's function : Does he represent Swift's bafflement or his exemplary warning ? But the more inclusive issue is epistemo- logical . Readers who wish to find some ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Authority of Satire | 29 |
The Hermeneutics of Self | 39 |
Copyright | |
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