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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... Satire has an ob- vious affinity to allegory , although only some satires are ac- cepted as allegorical . Both ... satire . * Satire thus shares al- legory's difficult relationships to narrative . Satire aims to con- fine the apparent ...
... Satire has an ob- vious affinity to allegory , although only some satires are ac- cepted as allegorical . Both ... satire . * Satire thus shares al- legory's difficult relationships to narrative . Satire aims to con- fine the apparent ...
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... satire the event is often pitted against its literary shaping , as when in mock epic an inappropriately small event is shaped according to the patterns conventionally used for epic events . But whether the result is a satire or an ...
... satire the event is often pitted against its literary shaping , as when in mock epic an inappropriately small event is shaped according to the patterns conventionally used for epic events . But whether the result is a satire or an ...
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... satire as " an attack by means of a manifest fiction upon discernible historic particulars . " He notes that satire is distinct from art " which is purely rhetorical " ( p . 23 ) , because satire has a fiction that is a recognized ...
... satire as " an attack by means of a manifest fiction upon discernible historic particulars . " He notes that satire is distinct from art " which is purely rhetorical " ( p . 23 ) , because satire has a fiction that is a recognized ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Authority of Satire | 29 |
The Hermeneutics of Self | 39 |
Copyright | |
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