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 98
... conceptions ' origins in sense , and the narrator of the Mechanical Operation is restoring these conceptions to their ... conception of providence . Thomas Burnet appears to be covertly parodied in this treat- ment of providence . The ...
... conceptions ' origins in sense , and the narrator of the Mechanical Operation is restoring these conceptions to their ... conception of providence . Thomas Burnet appears to be covertly parodied in this treat- ment of providence . The ...
Page 132
... conception of law may be imper- fectly realized in his society . The analysis of utopian societies that is implied by Gulliver's experiences of the first voyage , and especially by those of the third voyage , does indeed sup- port his ...
... conception of law may be imper- fectly realized in his society . The analysis of utopian societies that is implied by Gulliver's experiences of the first voyage , and especially by those of the third voyage , does indeed sup- port his ...
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... conception of " representation " as opposed to the Renaissance conception of " resemblance . " In the Renaissance a sign was a thing . among other things , needing to be discovered through its re- semblance to whatever it is the sign of ...
... conception of " representation " as opposed to the Renaissance conception of " resemblance . " In the Renaissance a sign was a thing . among other things , needing to be discovered through its re- semblance to whatever it is the sign of ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Authority of Satire | 29 |
The Hermeneutics of Self | 39 |
Copyright | |
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