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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... tion in the crucial period of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries , he focuses on the demand for private au- thority that characterizes authors and interpreters alike . The three brothers ' operations upon the Will are ...
... tion in the crucial period of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries , he focuses on the demand for private au- thority that characterizes authors and interpreters alike . The three brothers ' operations upon the Will are ...
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... tion to the erosion of the distinction between the conventionally organic and the mechanical in Hobbes's system : " For what is the Heart , but a Spring ; and the Nerves , but so many Strings ; and the Joynts , but so many Wheeles ...
... tion to the erosion of the distinction between the conventionally organic and the mechanical in Hobbes's system : " For what is the Heart , but a Spring ; and the Nerves , but so many Strings ; and the Joynts , but so many Wheeles ...
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... tion of nature . Burnet , like other physico - theologians , inter- preted the Bible by the standards of natural philosophy , and , in consequence , believed that as our understanding of nature in- creased so did our understanding of ...
... tion of nature . Burnet , like other physico - theologians , inter- preted the Bible by the standards of natural philosophy , and , in consequence , believed that as our understanding of nature in- creased so did our understanding of ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Authority of Satire | 29 |
The Hermeneutics of Self | 39 |
Copyright | |
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