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 27
... position in relation to an authorial position as ambiguous as that represented in Swift's works is difficult . Swift appears in the interstices between the putative author's meaning and the meaning that is assumed to be inherent in the ...
... position in relation to an authorial position as ambiguous as that represented in Swift's works is difficult . Swift appears in the interstices between the putative author's meaning and the meaning that is assumed to be inherent in the ...
Page 62
... position as a facilitator of ironies directed externally , moves to a new position as an object of the irony , a question arises about the stability of the authorial position . Although the search for the real author may be quixotic ...
... position as a facilitator of ironies directed externally , moves to a new position as an object of the irony , a question arises about the stability of the authorial position . Although the search for the real author may be quixotic ...
Page 64
... position stable . In a form that purports to be polemical , however , as satire does , such a change appears to undermine the validity of the position stated or implied before or after the change . To state the matter another way , the ...
... position stable . In a form that purports to be polemical , however , as satire does , such a change appears to undermine the validity of the position stated or implied before or after the change . To state the matter another way , the ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Authority of Satire | 29 |
The Hermeneutics of Self | 39 |
Copyright | |
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