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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... consequently , is symptomatic of him . The narrator as author is not , then , sim- ply one among other satiric targets , for example , a figure who sometimes conducts Swift's attack against dissenters and at other times exemplifies the ...
... consequently , is symptomatic of him . The narrator as author is not , then , sim- ply one among other satiric targets , for example , a figure who sometimes conducts Swift's attack against dissenters and at other times exemplifies the ...
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... Consequently , for them bibli- cal history may be both prefigurative and descriptive of a con- temporaneous event , while for Collins it is bound to its time . Even before Collins , both Hobbes and some of Hobbes's op- ponents had ...
... Consequently , for them bibli- cal history may be both prefigurative and descriptive of a con- temporaneous event , while for Collins it is bound to its time . Even before Collins , both Hobbes and some of Hobbes's op- ponents had ...
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... consequently , the ancients were just as much a culmination of knowledge as the moderns are . Wotton attempts to connect this line of argument to a belief in the " Eternity of the World " ( " Preface ” ) , a belief that avoids the need ...
... consequently , the ancients were just as much a culmination of knowledge as the moderns are . Wotton attempts to connect this line of argument to a belief in the " Eternity of the World " ( " Preface ” ) , a belief that avoids the need ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Authority of Satire | 29 |
The Hermeneutics of Self | 39 |
Copyright | |
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