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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... allegory , although only some satires are ac- cepted as allegorical . Both presume that reader and author share a context that remains incompletely represented in the narrative . Consequently , the interpretive model provided by allegory ...
... allegory , although only some satires are ac- cepted as allegorical . Both presume that reader and author share a context that remains incompletely represented in the narrative . Consequently , the interpretive model provided by allegory ...
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... allegory all other thought . Gulliver makes his book so sin- gular that he seems to be claiming all its implications as his own . He suppresses the suggestiveness of his story , making it his unique experience . In one case , the ...
... allegory all other thought . Gulliver makes his book so sin- gular that he seems to be claiming all its implications as his own . He suppresses the suggestiveness of his story , making it his unique experience . In one case , the ...
Page 89
... allegorical figure himself , who pro- vides us , in the middle of an allegory , with another allegory " ( p . 164 ) . On the implications of Swift's manipulations of allegory , Maresca remarks tren- chantly , " His whole point lies in ...
... allegorical figure himself , who pro- vides us , in the middle of an allegory , with another allegory " ( p . 164 ) . On the implications of Swift's manipulations of allegory , Maresca remarks tren- chantly , " His whole point lies in ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Authority of Satire | 29 |
The Hermeneutics of Self | 39 |
Copyright | |
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