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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... possible equivalents of things is parodied in the third voyage . ' The pro- jectors who plan to communicate with a " Bundle of Things ” make the assumption that " in Reality all things imaginable are but Nouns " ( 11 : 185 ) . Their ...
... possible equivalents of things is parodied in the third voyage . ' The pro- jectors who plan to communicate with a " Bundle of Things ” make the assumption that " in Reality all things imaginable are but Nouns " ( 11 : 185 ) . Their ...
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... possible links between them , " lan- guage can recall representations and perform operations on them ( pp . 85 , 82 ) . Classical language is then " discourse , ' a " sequence of verbal signs " that makes it possible to analyze and ...
... possible links between them , " lan- guage can recall representations and perform operations on them ( pp . 85 , 82 ) . Classical language is then " discourse , ' a " sequence of verbal signs " that makes it possible to analyze and ...
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... possible , discourse would then no longer be necessary , only this representation . The image of language as a bundle of things may be a depiction of the end ( in both senses ) of discourse , in which language reaches a condition of ...
... possible , discourse would then no longer be necessary , only this representation . The image of language as a bundle of things may be a depiction of the end ( in both senses ) of discourse , in which language reaches a condition of ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Authority of Satire | 29 |
The Hermeneutics of Self | 39 |
Copyright | |
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