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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... becomes increasingly an object of attention . The narration becomes an index of the narrator's relationship to a world as well as a measure of that world's shortcomings . Like Tristram Shandy ( for which Swift's Tale is a source ) ...
... becomes increasingly an object of attention . The narration becomes an index of the narrator's relationship to a world as well as a measure of that world's shortcomings . Like Tristram Shandy ( for which Swift's Tale is a source ) ...
Page 83
... becomes the true critic as tailor in the very next sec- tion ( pp . 101-102 ) . The allegory of the critic as ass in section 3 becomes the ass's head as confessor in section 4 ( pp . 107-108 ) and Jack as ass in section II ( p . 195 ) ...
... becomes the true critic as tailor in the very next sec- tion ( pp . 101-102 ) . The allegory of the critic as ass in section 3 becomes the ass's head as confessor in section 4 ( pp . 107-108 ) and Jack as ass in section II ( p . 195 ) ...
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... becomes a parody of satire as Gulliver imagines people to be far worse than they are depicted in sat- ire . Gulliver achieves a kind of inventive extravagance in this voyage as he exaggerates the conventional patterns of satiric ...
... becomes a parody of satire as Gulliver imagines people to be far worse than they are depicted in sat- ire . Gulliver achieves a kind of inventive extravagance in this voyage as he exaggerates the conventional patterns of satiric ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Authority of Satire | 29 |
The Hermeneutics of Self | 39 |
Copyright | |
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