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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... perspective rather than just assuming Swift's perspective . Swift articulates a crux that occurs in the interpretation of art and nature when the relationship between words and things is perceived to be unstable . St. Thomas Aquinas's ...
... perspective rather than just assuming Swift's perspective . Swift articulates a crux that occurs in the interpretation of art and nature when the relationship between words and things is perceived to be unstable . St. Thomas Aquinas's ...
Page 89
... perspective ? After all , both shorter works dramatize an author who is in some ways similar to the tale - teller . The narrator of the Battle shares the same bumptious irascibility , and the narrator of the Mechanical Operation adopts ...
... perspective ? After all , both shorter works dramatize an author who is in some ways similar to the tale - teller . The narrator of the Battle shares the same bumptious irascibility , and the narrator of the Mechanical Operation adopts ...
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... perspective in the first voyage , the Gulliver who narrates inserts the grim and detached perspective of the fourth voyage . Of his former unwillingness to be blinded in Lilliput , Gulliver remarks : " If I had then known the Nature of ...
... perspective in the first voyage , the Gulliver who narrates inserts the grim and detached perspective of the fourth voyage . Of his former unwillingness to be blinded in Lilliput , Gulliver remarks : " If I had then known the Nature of ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Authority of Satire | 29 |
The Hermeneutics of Self | 39 |
Copyright | |
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