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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... rational faculty , the unkind and ill - starred separation of which has thrown into confusion all the affairs of the human " The Philosophical Works of Francis Bacon , ed . John M. Robertson and based on the Spedding and Ellis text ...
... rational faculty , the unkind and ill - starred separation of which has thrown into confusion all the affairs of the human " The Philosophical Works of Francis Bacon , ed . John M. Robertson and based on the Spedding and Ellis text ...
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... rational analysis . ) The results of experiments must be " altered and digested " in the " understanding " ( Ba- con , p . 288 ) ; however , " the Understanding must not therefore be supplied with wings , but rather hung with weights to ...
... rational analysis . ) The results of experiments must be " altered and digested " in the " understanding " ( Ba- con , p . 288 ) ; however , " the Understanding must not therefore be supplied with wings , but rather hung with weights to ...
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... rational Creature can be compelled " ( 11 : 280 ) . They are governed by reason and nature , not by laws . In Swift's fable then , the Yahoos implicitly contradict Mon- taigne's vision of the possibility of an idyllic life free from hu ...
... rational Creature can be compelled " ( 11 : 280 ) . They are governed by reason and nature , not by laws . In Swift's fable then , the Yahoos implicitly contradict Mon- taigne's vision of the possibility of an idyllic life free from hu ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Authority of Satire | 29 |
The Hermeneutics of Self | 39 |
Copyright | |
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