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 96
... final image of enthusiasm is that of the general on the opposition between the Cartesian rationalism of the Modern and the Lockean empiricism of Swift himself " ( p . 126 ) . He sees this opposi- tion embodied in stylistic contrasts ...
... final image of enthusiasm is that of the general on the opposition between the Cartesian rationalism of the Modern and the Lockean empiricism of Swift himself " ( p . 126 ) . He sees this opposi- tion embodied in stylistic contrasts ...
Page 107
... final Dissolution " ( Tale , p . 229 ) . Behind Descartes and Burnet also then appears Lucre- tius , who depicts an aging world that approaches its final cata- clysm through a series of physical disasters , ending in the dissolution of ...
... final Dissolution " ( Tale , p . 229 ) . Behind Descartes and Burnet also then appears Lucre- tius , who depicts an aging world that approaches its final cata- clysm through a series of physical disasters , ending in the dissolution of ...
Page 170
... final naming , can be interrogated only through criticism , an analysis of a name's " truth , precision , appropri- ateness , or expressive form " ( p . 80 ) . Discourse is then restored by our uncovering of the process by which the ...
... final naming , can be interrogated only through criticism , an analysis of a name's " truth , precision , appropri- ateness , or expressive form " ( p . 80 ) . Discourse is then restored by our uncovering of the process by which the ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Authority of Satire | 29 |
The Hermeneutics of Self | 39 |
Copyright | |
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