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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Author and Authority Everett Zimmerman. flict in the empiricists ' thoughts about language : " The more sharply they defined language not as an expression of things but as an expression of concepts , the more imperiously the ques- tion ...
Author and Authority Everett Zimmerman. flict in the empiricists ' thoughts about language : " The more sharply they defined language not as an expression of things but as an expression of concepts , the more imperiously the ques- tion ...
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... language itself should convey such a connection . But the epistemological and herme- neutical problem that Swift has raised remains : Is language not a system in itself that exists without any necessarily adequate correlation to subject ...
... language itself should convey such a connection . But the epistemological and herme- neutical problem that Swift has raised remains : Is language not a system in itself that exists without any necessarily adequate correlation to subject ...
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Author and Authority Everett Zimmerman. Renaissance episteme : " these insistent marks [ of language ] summoned up a secondary language - that of commentary , ex- egesis , erudition - in order to stir the language that lay dor- mant ...
Author and Authority Everett Zimmerman. Renaissance episteme : " these insistent marks [ of language ] summoned up a secondary language - that of commentary , ex- egesis , erudition - in order to stir the language that lay dor- mant ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Authority of Satire | 29 |
The Hermeneutics of Self | 39 |
Copyright | |
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