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 23
... directions , the satiric image spreads us out on the two forks of the divergence . There is no comfortable fusion ... direction because it attempts to separate satire according to aesthetic criteria rather than by rhetorical ones such ...
... directions , the satiric image spreads us out on the two forks of the divergence . There is no comfortable fusion ... direction because it attempts to separate satire according to aesthetic criteria rather than by rhetorical ones such ...
Page 121
... direction , because there are no absolute values in Grub Street , no right and wrong , nothing to steer by except the belief that one has liberty to believe whatever the marketplace determines ; that one may believe both pro and con of ...
... direction , because there are no absolute values in Grub Street , no right and wrong , nothing to steer by except the belief that one has liberty to believe whatever the marketplace determines ; that one may believe both pro and con of ...
Page 95
... direction the irony takes , though it is implicit from the early pages of the Travels . It is now man's pretension , not society's or the new philosophy's , man contemplating his intrinsic nature , that forms the other pole of the irony ...
... direction the irony takes , though it is implicit from the early pages of the Travels . It is now man's pretension , not society's or the new philosophy's , man contemplating his intrinsic nature , that forms the other pole of the irony ...
Contents
The Nature of Satire | 7 |
The Satiric Focus I | 27 |
The Satiric Focus II | 38 |
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