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 132
... clothes is a prominent example of his determined suppression of all but the literal . Martin Price remarks of the social symbolism of clothes in Swift : " The perfectly rational Houyhnhnms need no clothes ; their bodies represent no ...
... clothes is a prominent example of his determined suppression of all but the literal . Martin Price remarks of the social symbolism of clothes in Swift : " The perfectly rational Houyhnhnms need no clothes ; their bodies represent no ...
Page 133
... Clothes symbolize the social structures that we use to mitigate the degeneration consequent on the fall ; they are also a tacit acknowledgment of the fall . In the fourth voyage of the Travels , clothes suggest , then , the fundamental ...
... Clothes symbolize the social structures that we use to mitigate the degeneration consequent on the fall ; they are also a tacit acknowledgment of the fall . In the fourth voyage of the Travels , clothes suggest , then , the fundamental ...
Page 134
... clothes are an attempt at a denial of his fallen condition . Gulliver ignores even the simple social and moral restraints that are part of the meaning of clothes . When he once strips himself " stark naked , " he is attacked by a female ...
... clothes are an attempt at a denial of his fallen condition . Gulliver ignores even the simple social and moral restraints that are part of the meaning of clothes . When he once strips himself " stark naked , " he is attacked by a female ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Authority of Satire | 29 |
The Hermeneutics of Self | 39 |
Copyright | |
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