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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Author and Authority Everett Zimmerman. and thing , the Royal Society attempts to bridge it , to make the word signify a true conceptualization of a thing . This use of language is an attempt to evade the apparent truth that the words ...
Author and Authority Everett Zimmerman. and thing , the Royal Society attempts to bridge it , to make the word signify a true conceptualization of a thing . This use of language is an attempt to evade the apparent truth that the words ...
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... attempts to separate the two , and he also rejects Hobbes's attempt to make the church subservient to the state . Irvin Ehrenpreis , Swift : The Man , His Works , and the Age ( Cam- bridge : Harvard University Press , 1967 ) , vol . 2 ...
... attempts to separate the two , and he also rejects Hobbes's attempt to make the church subservient to the state . Irvin Ehrenpreis , Swift : The Man , His Works , and the Age ( Cam- bridge : Harvard University Press , 1967 ) , vol . 2 ...
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... attempt to evade human limitations by creating a fictional identity . The putative author of A Tale of a Tub attempts to reduce the world to his own limits . He aims to achieve a close connection , even a physical identity , of self ...
... attempt to evade human limitations by creating a fictional identity . The putative author of A Tale of a Tub attempts to reduce the world to his own limits . He aims to achieve a close connection , even a physical identity , of self ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Authority of Satire | 29 |
The Hermeneutics of Self | 39 |
Copyright | |
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