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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... accord with his desires for acclaim . In adopting an allegorical form for his Tale in a time when al- legory was vanishing , Swift emphasizes the questions of inter- pretation and authorial authority that result from the shift in the ...
... accord with his desires for acclaim . In adopting an allegorical form for his Tale in a time when al- legory was vanishing , Swift emphasizes the questions of inter- pretation and authorial authority that result from the shift in the ...
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... accord with science . Scriptural in- terpretation came to depend on a knowledge of second causes , with a diminished reliance on a providential scheme in which the temporal finds its place in the eternal . These new readings of nature ...
... accord with science . Scriptural in- terpretation came to depend on a knowledge of second causes , with a diminished reliance on a providential scheme in which the temporal finds its place in the eternal . These new readings of nature ...
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... accord with the form and then in accord with its collapse . All along the narrator has been clownish and abrasive . Nevertheless , the mock enco- mium allows an argument to be conducted without requiring its narrator to assume full ...
... accord with the form and then in accord with its collapse . All along the narrator has been clownish and abrasive . Nevertheless , the mock enco- mium allows an argument to be conducted without requiring its narrator to assume full ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Authority of Satire | 29 |
The Hermeneutics of Self | 39 |
Copyright | |
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