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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Page 91
... attacks on the idol of the seventeenth century ” ( p . 114 ) . While the parody of Bacon that Vickers uncovers is often telling evidence that Swift disapproved of aspects of Bacon's writing , it seems to me that Swift's limited attack ...
... attacks on the idol of the seventeenth century ” ( p . 114 ) . While the parody of Bacon that Vickers uncovers is often telling evidence that Swift disapproved of aspects of Bacon's writing , it seems to me that Swift's limited attack ...
Page 161
... attack is , of course , the feature that categorizes his works as satire ; nevertheless , a generic classification ... attack of satire , without pondering its limits and the nature of the values that engender the attack , is derived ...
... attack is , of course , the feature that categorizes his works as satire ; nevertheless , a generic classification ... attack of satire , without pondering its limits and the nature of the values that engender the attack , is derived ...
Page 162
... attack is itself drawn into the sa- tiric scene when the authorial privilege is questioned . Swift's rendering of ... attacks on satire of both [ Wyndham ] Lewis and Swift are launched from higher levels than their object , " I am not ...
... attack is itself drawn into the sa- tiric scene when the authorial privilege is questioned . Swift's rendering of ... attacks on satire of both [ Wyndham ] Lewis and Swift are launched from higher levels than their object , " I am not ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Authority of Satire | 29 |
The Hermeneutics of Self | 39 |
Copyright | |
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