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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... reason must have seemed old - fashioned , although a version of it survived in the Cambridge Platonists . When man is stud- ied empirically , he may appear more or less rational , but Hooker's concept of reason is philosophically and ...
... reason must have seemed old - fashioned , although a version of it survived in the Cambridge Platonists . When man is stud- ied empirically , he may appear more or less rational , but Hooker's concept of reason is philosophically and ...
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... reason from experience . This version of rea- son is abstract and speculative , consulting only the self and its ambitions . The Houyhnhnms , horses , exemplify a reason wholly allied to nature . Their reason is relatively incurious and ...
... reason from experience . This version of rea- son is abstract and speculative , consulting only the self and its ambitions . The Houyhnhnms , horses , exemplify a reason wholly allied to nature . Their reason is relatively incurious and ...
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... reason without divine revelation , yet people continue to admire human reason , regarding it as an adequate tool for comprehending the divine despite its failure even to or- der a just society . * By means of the invidious comparison of ...
... reason without divine revelation , yet people continue to admire human reason , regarding it as an adequate tool for comprehending the divine despite its failure even to or- der a just society . * By means of the invidious comparison of ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Authority of Satire | 29 |
The Hermeneutics of Self | 39 |
Copyright | |
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