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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... vision of its user , Swift measures the implicit claims of allegory against the explicit desires of his putative author . The narrator of the Tale claims a sacralizing power for his language but exposes his entirely secular aims as he ...
... vision of its user , Swift measures the implicit claims of allegory against the explicit desires of his putative author . The narrator of the Tale claims a sacralizing power for his language but exposes his entirely secular aims as he ...
Page 116
... vision of the satirist and also the de- velopment of his satiric technique.3 Ordinarily we expect vision and technique to coincide , ex- pressive of each other . In the Travels , however , the adaptation of the putative author's vision ...
... vision of the satirist and also the de- velopment of his satiric technique.3 Ordinarily we expect vision and technique to coincide , ex- pressive of each other . In the Travels , however , the adaptation of the putative author's vision ...
Page 177
... vision in his major satires is a retreat from the human , although not from nature , reason , or God . As Swift ... visions . Swift uses this compromised authorial figure as his central symbol both of the limits of the human ...
... vision in his major satires is a retreat from the human , although not from nature , reason , or God . As Swift ... visions . Swift uses this compromised authorial figure as his central symbol both of the limits of the human ...
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
The Authority of Satire | 29 |
The Hermeneutics of Self | 39 |
Copyright | |
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