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 55
... mind : the mind must be kept " applied to some certain study , " or it will thrash about " in the vague expanse of the imagination " ( Montaigne , I , 9 , p . 14 ) . But despite his writing , he recognizes that his mind continues to ...
... mind : the mind must be kept " applied to some certain study , " or it will thrash about " in the vague expanse of the imagination " ( Montaigne , I , 9 , p . 14 ) . But despite his writing , he recognizes that his mind continues to ...
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... mind observes no earthly limits , but it may seem less appropriate with respect to Gassendi and Hobbes , who are in some respects opposite to Descartes . Both opposed the promi- nence of mind and its sharp separation from the body that ...
... mind observes no earthly limits , but it may seem less appropriate with respect to Gassendi and Hobbes , who are in some respects opposite to Descartes . Both opposed the promi- nence of mind and its sharp separation from the body that ...
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... mind are unavoidably physical : " Reasoning will depend on names , names on the imagination , and imagina- tion , perchance , as I think , on the motion of the corporeal or- gans . Thus mind will be nothing but the motions in certain ...
... mind are unavoidably physical : " Reasoning will depend on names , names on the imagination , and imagina- tion , perchance , as I think , on the motion of the corporeal or- gans . Thus mind will be nothing but the motions in certain ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Authority of Satire | 29 |
The Hermeneutics of Self | 39 |
Copyright | |
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