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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... imagination or verisimilitude the author may be able to create a world that surpasses or rivals this one ; he may ... Imagining a Self : Autobiography and Novel in Eighteenth - Century England ( Cambridge : Harvard University Press ...
... imagination or verisimilitude the author may be able to create a world that surpasses or rivals this one ; he may ... Imagining a Self : Autobiography and Novel in Eighteenth - Century England ( Cambridge : Harvard University Press ...
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... imagination , Hobbes advanced the hypothesis that all oper- ations of the mind are unavoidably physical : " Reasoning will depend on names , names on the imagination , and imagina- tion , perchance , as I think , on the motion of the ...
... imagination , Hobbes advanced the hypothesis that all oper- ations of the mind are unavoidably physical : " Reasoning will depend on names , names on the imagination , and imagina- tion , perchance , as I think , on the motion of the ...
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... Imagination , Fancy , and Invention ... , being shut up within Mathematicks and Music ” ( 11 , 165-66 ) . Their election of these two sciences to which to subordinate nature is a deliberate con- striction that parallels in effect the ...
... Imagination , Fancy , and Invention ... , being shut up within Mathematicks and Music ” ( 11 , 165-66 ) . Their election of these two sciences to which to subordinate nature is a deliberate con- striction that parallels in effect the ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Authority of Satire | 29 |
The Hermeneutics of Self | 39 |
Copyright | |
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