Swift's Vision of Evil: A Comparative Study of A Tale of a Tub and Gulliver's Travels, Volumes 1-2English Literary Studies, University of Victoria, 1975 |
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Page 38
... Chapter III continues the pattern of the previous chapters , but the rhythm is less regular . As we have seen , the dominant theme of the chapter is games . A brief description of the innocent games of boys and girls sets the tone ...
... Chapter III continues the pattern of the previous chapters , but the rhythm is less regular . As we have seen , the dominant theme of the chapter is games . A brief description of the innocent games of boys and girls sets the tone ...
Page 57
... Chapters VI and VII are united by one sustained irony . The scene in Chapter III is relatively short . But in this one paragraph the ironic distance between Gulliver's pretensions ( the representative of his " noble Country , the ...
... Chapters VI and VII are united by one sustained irony . The scene in Chapter III is relatively short . But in this one paragraph the ironic distance between Gulliver's pretensions ( the representative of his " noble Country , the ...
Page 94
... Chapter V continues into Chapter VI almost unabated . The pretension becomes even more perfunctory , hardly more than brief questions or devices for changing direction , as the deflation continues unrelieved until Chapter VII , where ...
... Chapter V continues into Chapter VI almost unabated . The pretension becomes even more perfunctory , hardly more than brief questions or devices for changing direction , as the deflation continues unrelieved until Chapter VII , where ...
Contents
The Nature of Satire | 7 |
The Satiric Focus I | 27 |
The Satiric Focus II | 38 |
Copyright | |
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