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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... limits the concept of providential his- tory that supports typology . For Augustine a historical narra- tive is not to be considered a human institution , " because those things which are past and cannot be revoked belong to the or- der ...
... limits the concept of providential his- tory that supports typology . For Augustine a historical narra- tive is not to be considered a human institution , " because those things which are past and cannot be revoked belong to the or- der ...
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... limits . He aims to achieve a close connection , even a physical identity , of self , world , and book : " I shall here pause awhile , till I find , by feeling the World's Pulse , and my own , that it will be of absolute Necessity for ...
... limits . He aims to achieve a close connection , even a physical identity , of self , world , and book : " I shall here pause awhile , till I find , by feeling the World's Pulse , and my own , that it will be of absolute Necessity for ...
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... limits of the knowledge that is bound by the classical episteme ( p . 76 ) . The Houyhnhnms ' language defines what is , in the terms of Houyhnhnm representations - black and white , long and short , Houy- hnhnm and Yahoo . Their ...
... limits of the knowledge that is bound by the classical episteme ( p . 76 ) . The Houyhnhnms ' language defines what is , in the terms of Houyhnhnm representations - black and white , long and short , Houy- hnhnm and Yahoo . Their ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Authority of Satire | 29 |
The Hermeneutics of Self | 39 |
Copyright | |
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