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 87
... knowledge . Swift's emphasis in both the Tale and the Travels is on the limits of human knowledge , including that of the authorial figure . Swift's authors are more limited than their pretensions , unlike such vatic figures as ...
... knowledge . Swift's emphasis in both the Tale and the Travels is on the limits of human knowledge , including that of the authorial figure . Swift's authors are more limited than their pretensions , unlike such vatic figures as ...
Page 105
... knowledge . Temple argued that the accumulation of knowledge does not make moderns superior to ancients . In his view , the ancients too had ancients , now lost to the moderns ; consequently , the ancients were just as much a ...
... knowledge . Temple argued that the accumulation of knowledge does not make moderns superior to ancients . In his view , the ancients too had ancients , now lost to the moderns ; consequently , the ancients were just as much a ...
Page 172
... knowledge of nature itself , and a philosophy of representation which , in the course of time , became more and more nominalist and more and more skeptical " ( p . 74 ) . Swift exhibits this skeptical attitude toward representation ...
... knowledge of nature itself , and a philosophy of representation which , in the course of time , became more and more nominalist and more and more skeptical " ( p . 74 ) . Swift exhibits this skeptical attitude toward representation ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Authority of Satire | 29 |
The Hermeneutics of Self | 39 |
Copyright | |
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