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 47
... remarks that " the Mirrors of the Antients were made of Brass , and sine Mercurio " ( p . 103 ) . He has skillfully derived this satirical remark about critics from a statement whose literal meaning appears to be opposed to his ...
... remarks that " the Mirrors of the Antients were made of Brass , and sine Mercurio " ( p . 103 ) . He has skillfully derived this satirical remark about critics from a statement whose literal meaning appears to be opposed to his ...
Page 79
... remarks , " by personating other writers , who sometimes offer such Reasons and Excuses for publishing their Works as they ought chiefly to conceal and be asham'd of " ( p . 30 ) . He then argues , denigrating as he praises , that de ...
... remarks , " by personating other writers , who sometimes offer such Reasons and Excuses for publishing their Works as they ought chiefly to conceal and be asham'd of " ( p . 30 ) . He then argues , denigrating as he praises , that de ...
Page 89
... remarks that " Aesop's allegorization [ in the Battle ] only makes things more confusing ; he is , after all , an allegorical figure himself , who pro- vides us , in the middle of an allegory , with another allegory " ( p . 164 ) . On ...
... remarks that " Aesop's allegorization [ in the Battle ] only makes things more confusing ; he is , after all , an allegorical figure himself , who pro- vides us , in the middle of an allegory , with another allegory " ( p . 164 ) . On ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Authority of Satire | 29 |
The Hermeneutics of Self | 39 |
Copyright | |
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