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 27
... imply a normative shape . These satires , with their emphasis on their creators , call into question the very possibility of satire . Without at least the pre- tense that it represents a preexistent situation , the work loses any ...
... imply a normative shape . These satires , with their emphasis on their creators , call into question the very possibility of satire . Without at least the pre- tense that it represents a preexistent situation , the work loses any ...
Page 77
... implies a self that exists independently of the form although re- vealed in it . In both Swift's Tale and Erasmus's Praise of Folly , the mock encomium is disrupted . Before the " Digression on Madness , " the praise of the moderns has ...
... implies a self that exists independently of the form although re- vealed in it . In both Swift's Tale and Erasmus's Praise of Folly , the mock encomium is disrupted . Before the " Digression on Madness , " the praise of the moderns has ...
Page 90
... imply is validated not by the narrator's recommendation or attack but by a series of images that place historical figures in contrasting relationships and imply a point of comparison . These familiar historical fig- ures create an ...
... imply is validated not by the narrator's recommendation or attack but by a series of images that place historical figures in contrasting relationships and imply a point of comparison . These familiar historical fig- ures create an ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Authority of Satire | 29 |
The Hermeneutics of Self | 39 |
Copyright | |
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