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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... truth is the correspondence of language to something external and verifiable . According to Frye , this third phase of language " accompanies certain ten- dencies in the Renaissance and Reformation , and attains cul- tural ascendancy in ...
... truth is the correspondence of language to something external and verifiable . According to Frye , this third phase of language " accompanies certain ten- dencies in the Renaissance and Reformation , and attains cul- tural ascendancy in ...
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... truth , but the author's end is ordinarily achieved not by our accep- tance of the sophistic arguments but by our acknowledgment of a dimension to reality not fully accounted for in our more nearly rational versions of truth . " In the ...
... truth , but the author's end is ordinarily achieved not by our accep- tance of the sophistic arguments but by our acknowledgment of a dimension to reality not fully accounted for in our more nearly rational versions of truth . " In the ...
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... truth , somewhat improbably preferring Dampier , the writer of travel books , as his literary antecedent . He insists that his truth is literal . ' For Gulliver fiction is falsehood . In the prefatory letter added to the 1735 edition of ...
... truth , somewhat improbably preferring Dampier , the writer of travel books , as his literary antecedent . He insists that his truth is literal . ' For Gulliver fiction is falsehood . In the prefatory letter added to the 1735 edition of ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Authority of Satire | 29 |
The Hermeneutics of Self | 39 |
Copyright | |
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