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 119
... observation by attributing to lawyers a motiveless malig- nity and monumental stupidity . His remarks are a comic exhi- bition of the satirist's fantasy ; these lawyers live in the heat of Gulliver's imagination , mythical creatures ...
... observation by attributing to lawyers a motiveless malig- nity and monumental stupidity . His remarks are a comic exhi- bition of the satirist's fantasy ; these lawyers live in the heat of Gulliver's imagination , mythical creatures ...
Page 143
... observations without compar- ing them to other accounts : " In differing Accounts , even of the same things , it can hardly be but there will be some new Light afforded by each of them " ( p . 3. ) Dampier's book ( dedicated to Charles ...
... observations without compar- ing them to other accounts : " In differing Accounts , even of the same things , it can hardly be but there will be some new Light afforded by each of them " ( p . 3. ) Dampier's book ( dedicated to Charles ...
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... observing the Progress and Returns of Comets , with the Changes of Motion in the Sun , Moon and Stars " ( 11 : 210 ) . Gul- liver believes too that longer life would bring progress in moral- ity . The " Observations and Memorials " of ...
... observing the Progress and Returns of Comets , with the Changes of Motion in the Sun , Moon and Stars " ( 11 : 210 ) . Gul- liver believes too that longer life would bring progress in moral- ity . The " Observations and Memorials " of ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Authority of Satire | 29 |
The Hermeneutics of Self | 39 |
Copyright | |
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