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 53
... external world and of the potentialities and liabilities of self . While it appears certain that Swift was strongly influenced by Montaigne , I am not , in my discussion here , asserting that every cited passage is a source for some ...
... external world and of the potentialities and liabilities of self . While it appears certain that Swift was strongly influenced by Montaigne , I am not , in my discussion here , asserting that every cited passage is a source for some ...
Page 122
... external to the fictional world created in it " ( p . 26 ) . Consequently “ none of the fictional creations in Gul- liver's Travels can ever themselves be satirized .... Similarly , any virtues which attach to the fictional creations ...
... external to the fictional world created in it " ( p . 26 ) . Consequently “ none of the fictional creations in Gul- liver's Travels can ever themselves be satirized .... Similarly , any virtues which attach to the fictional creations ...
Page 153
... external and physical , enabling us to recognize others by their observable characteristics . 13 " Personal identity , " however , is a matter not at all of the body but of memory . Locke makes a dis- tinction between the external ...
... external and physical , enabling us to recognize others by their observable characteristics . 13 " Personal identity , " however , is a matter not at all of the body but of memory . Locke makes a dis- tinction between the external ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Authority of Satire | 29 |
The Hermeneutics of Self | 39 |
Copyright | |
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