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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... analysis of the proposition was allowing to pass through its net " ( p . 101 ) . The linking of language to knowledge led eventually " towards the place where things and words are conjoined in their common essence , and which makes it ...
... analysis of the proposition was allowing to pass through its net " ( p . 101 ) . The linking of language to knowledge led eventually " towards the place where things and words are conjoined in their common essence , and which makes it ...
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... analysis but only as an assertion of the limits of reason when it is confronted by nature . The Struldbruggs are ... analysis . The imagination that the Laputans lack is necessary for the comparisons and differentiations es- sential to ...
... analysis but only as an assertion of the limits of reason when it is confronted by nature . The Struldbruggs are ... analysis . The imagination that the Laputans lack is necessary for the comparisons and differentiations es- sential to ...
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... analysis and a language that is adequate to all re- ality . Foucault states , " In the classical period , what was denoted by the term universal language was not the primitive , pure , and unimpaired speech that would be able ... to ...
... analysis and a language that is adequate to all re- ality . Foucault states , " In the classical period , what was denoted by the term universal language was not the primitive , pure , and unimpaired speech that would be able ... to ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Authority of Satire | 29 |
The Hermeneutics of Self | 39 |
Copyright | |
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