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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... interpretation of prior events , is not easily subdued to its intended analytical meaning : " The historian must ' interpret ' his data by exclud- ing certain facts as irrelevant to his narrative purpose . On the other hand , in his ...
... interpretation of prior events , is not easily subdued to its intended analytical meaning : " The historian must ' interpret ' his data by exclud- ing certain facts as irrelevant to his narrative purpose . On the other hand , in his ...
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... interpretation of his own time . And in a sense his views are an extension of the emphasis on the literal meaning that is the salient characteristic of Reformed interpretation as it devel- oped from Luther and Calvin . The Reformer's ...
... interpretation of his own time . And in a sense his views are an extension of the emphasis on the literal meaning that is the salient characteristic of Reformed interpretation as it devel- oped from Luther and Calvin . The Reformer's ...
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... interpretation more muddled than Wot- ton left it . To call the coats " the Doctrine and Faith of Chris- tianity ... interpretations of an allegory that is just as often a reflection of the tale - teller's whims as an elucidation of ...
... interpretation more muddled than Wot- ton left it . To call the coats " the Doctrine and Faith of Chris- tianity ... interpretations of an allegory that is just as often a reflection of the tale - teller's whims as an elucidation of ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Authority of Satire | 29 |
The Hermeneutics of Self | 39 |
Copyright | |
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