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 22
... Tale completes Homer , having " exhausted all that the Human Imagination can Rise or Fall to " ( p . 129 ) . The various systems from which the tale - teller derives his authority , however , are blatantly arbitrary . Although he claims ...
... Tale completes Homer , having " exhausted all that the Human Imagination can Rise or Fall to " ( p . 129 ) . The various systems from which the tale - teller derives his authority , however , are blatantly arbitrary . Although he claims ...
Page 23
... tale - teller makes his book so indiscriminately suggestive that he seems to be attempting to imply in figure and allegory all other thought . Gulliver makes his book so sin- gular that he seems to be claiming all its implications as ...
... tale - teller makes his book so indiscriminately suggestive that he seems to be attempting to imply in figure and allegory all other thought . Gulliver makes his book so sin- gular that he seems to be claiming all its implications as ...
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... tale - teller praises modern accomplishments in a way that emphasizes their deficiencies , and in the tale , he applauds the obviously disreputable Aeolists and Jack . The rhetorical stance of Folly and that of the tale - teller differ ...
... tale - teller praises modern accomplishments in a way that emphasizes their deficiencies , and in the tale , he applauds the obviously disreputable Aeolists and Jack . The rhetorical stance of Folly and that of the tale - teller differ ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Authority of Satire | 29 |
The Hermeneutics of Self | 39 |
Copyright | |
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