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 66
... called mad and the other the " Saver of his Country " ( p . 175 ) . Although the term " madness " implies something that we abominate , the narrator uses the word only because " the Narrowness of our Mother - tongue has not yet assigned ...
... called mad and the other the " Saver of his Country " ( p . 175 ) . Although the term " madness " implies something that we abominate , the narrator uses the word only because " the Narrowness of our Mother - tongue has not yet assigned ...
Page 129
... called Hobbesian : in the state of nature life is " soli- tary , poore , nasty , brutish , and short " ( Leviathan , I , 13 , p . 186 ) . Although neither Gulliver's master nor Gulliver is willing to praise European culture , it is ...
... called Hobbesian : in the state of nature life is " soli- tary , poore , nasty , brutish , and short " ( Leviathan , I , 13 , p . 186 ) . Although neither Gulliver's master nor Gulliver is willing to praise European culture , it is ...
Page 151
... called their operational aspects . He removes the dispute from the cultural setting from which it derives its meaning . " 1 The coincidence between the Houyhnhnm language and conventional satiric language allows Gulliver's assertion ...
... called their operational aspects . He removes the dispute from the cultural setting from which it derives its meaning . " 1 The coincidence between the Houyhnhnm language and conventional satiric language allows Gulliver's assertion ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Authority of Satire | 29 |
The Hermeneutics of Self | 39 |
Copyright | |
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