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 95
... body . " ' 8 Gassendi too was unconvinced by Descartes's separation of thought from body : “ ..you still have to prove that the power of thinking is so much superior to the nature of body , that neither breath nor any other mobile ...
... body . " ' 8 Gassendi too was unconvinced by Descartes's separation of thought from body : “ ..you still have to prove that the power of thinking is so much superior to the nature of body , that neither breath nor any other mobile ...
Page 153
... bodies or several persons may be connected to the same body : " It being the same consciousness that makes Man be himself to himself , personal Identity depends on that only , whether it be annexed only to one individual Substance , or ...
... bodies or several persons may be connected to the same body : " It being the same consciousness that makes Man be himself to himself , personal Identity depends on that only , whether it be annexed only to one individual Substance , or ...
Page 161
... body : " He has never been out of his cell . All he knows of that distant , grey spire , those feathery trees , has been mediated to him " by a “ bizarre appa- ratus " of " nerve wires " ( p . 13 ) . The epistemological issues in ...
... body : " He has never been out of his cell . All he knows of that distant , grey spire , those feathery trees , has been mediated to him " by a “ bizarre appa- ratus " of " nerve wires " ( p . 13 ) . The epistemological issues in ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Authority of Satire | 29 |
The Hermeneutics of Self | 39 |
Copyright | |
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