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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... century parliamentary revolutions , and the changes in the lit- erature of the eighteenth century . Considered broadly , the relationship of the perceiving sub- ject and the perceived object is a pervasive theme of world liter- ature ...
... century parliamentary revolutions , and the changes in the lit- erature of the eighteenth century . Considered broadly , the relationship of the perceiving sub- ject and the perceived object is a pervasive theme of world liter- ature ...
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... Century England , 2d ed . ( St. Louis : Washington University Press , 1961 ) , is the standard treatment of the subject ; however , this study does not do justice to the complexity of the position of Swift and others ( in a period ...
... Century England , 2d ed . ( St. Louis : Washington University Press , 1961 ) , is the standard treatment of the subject ; however , this study does not do justice to the complexity of the position of Swift and others ( in a period ...
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... century ( but going back to Bacon and fur- ther to Quintilian ) was to denigrate any stylistic trait that dis ... centuries in both form and content . Dam- James Knowlson , Universal Language Schemes in England and France , 1600-1800 ...
... century ( but going back to Bacon and fur- ther to Quintilian ) was to denigrate any stylistic trait that dis ... centuries in both form and content . Dam- James Knowlson , Universal Language Schemes in England and France , 1600-1800 ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Authority of Satire | 29 |
The Hermeneutics of Self | 39 |
Copyright | |
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