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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... continuity with the flawed life . But the attempt to reduce the dissonance between Gulliver and Swift is sabotaged by Gul- liver's explicit manipulation of generic conventions . Gulliver aggressively and unbelievably defines his book's ...
... continuity with the flawed life . But the attempt to reduce the dissonance between Gulliver and Swift is sabotaged by Gul- liver's explicit manipulation of generic conventions . Gulliver aggressively and unbelievably defines his book's ...
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... continuity ; their opponents accuse them of turning satires into novels . People concerned with satiric alle- gory tend to focus on image and referentiality ; their interest lies in the confining of history within a conceptualized moral ...
... continuity ; their opponents accuse them of turning satires into novels . People concerned with satiric alle- gory tend to focus on image and referentiality ; their interest lies in the confining of history within a conceptualized moral ...
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... continuity that over- comes time and space , but this continuity is subverted by organic collapse . The Struldbruggs are an extreme version of a condition that prevails among the Laputans , who are without " Imagination , Fancy , and ...
... continuity that over- comes time and space , but this continuity is subverted by organic collapse . The Struldbruggs are an extreme version of a condition that prevails among the Laputans , who are without " Imagination , Fancy , and ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Authority of Satire | 29 |
The Hermeneutics of Self | 39 |
Copyright | |
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