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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... Literature , Northrop Frye suggests , exhibits a tension between linear movement and " the integrity ... of completed form . ” 3 Linear movement is narrative , and formal integrity is ' Frank Kermode , The Genesis of Secrecy : On the ...
... Literature , Northrop Frye suggests , exhibits a tension between linear movement and " the integrity ... of completed form . ” 3 Linear movement is narrative , and formal integrity is ' Frank Kermode , The Genesis of Secrecy : On the ...
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... literature and philosophy to be fallacious . Au- thors mistakenly " choose a general air of man , and according to that interpret all his actions , " and " even the best authors ven : Yale University Press , 1960 ) , sees Montaigne as ...
... literature and philosophy to be fallacious . Au- thors mistakenly " choose a general air of man , and according to that interpret all his actions , " and " even the best authors ven : Yale University Press , 1960 ) , sees Montaigne as ...
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... literature , not to the reporting of travels : " A traveller's chief Aim should be to make Men wiser and better , and to improve their Minds by the bad , as well as the good Example of what they deliver concerning for- eign Places ...
... literature , not to the reporting of travels : " A traveller's chief Aim should be to make Men wiser and better , and to improve their Minds by the bad , as well as the good Example of what they deliver concerning for- eign Places ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Authority of Satire | 29 |
The Hermeneutics of Self | 39 |
Copyright | |
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