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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... defines evil , the more nearly that evil is exemplified ) . What begins as attack is in danger of end- ing as the sincerest form of flattery . The narrator of the Tale no- tices this metamorphosis when he describes those critics who ...
... defines evil , the more nearly that evil is exemplified ) . What begins as attack is in danger of end- ing as the sincerest form of flattery . The narrator of the Tale no- tices this metamorphosis when he describes those critics who ...
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... defines him ; the second makes of the narrator an authorial figure who defines the tale . It is often dif- ficult to argue that either method represents a literal approach to a given satire , especially a short one . In A Modest ...
... defines him ; the second makes of the narrator an authorial figure who defines the tale . It is often dif- ficult to argue that either method represents a literal approach to a given satire , especially a short one . In A Modest ...
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... defines the mock encomium , establishes its vogue in England in the period that he discusses , and provides a list of examples . Miller attributes a portion of the English interest in the form to translations of Erasmus's book ( p . 155 ) ...
... defines the mock encomium , establishes its vogue in England in the period that he discusses , and provides a list of examples . Miller attributes a portion of the English interest in the form to translations of Erasmus's book ( p . 155 ) ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Authority of Satire | 29 |
The Hermeneutics of Self | 39 |
Copyright | |
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