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 28
... learning . Here the Grub Street narrator is an appropriate figure , except for the fact that there is less emphasis on learning in the Tale than on Grub Street itself . Had Swift wanted to stress the satire on learning he had enough ...
... learning . Here the Grub Street narrator is an appropriate figure , except for the fact that there is less emphasis on learning in the Tale than on Grub Street itself . Had Swift wanted to stress the satire on learning he had enough ...
Page 94
... learning . I cannot emphasize too much that it is learning we are dealing with here , divine learning , gnosis . And the hack demonstrates this logically , first , by the aphorism , " Learning puffeth men up , " and second , by the ...
... learning . I cannot emphasize too much that it is learning we are dealing with here , divine learning , gnosis . And the hack demonstrates this logically , first , by the aphorism , " Learning puffeth men up , " and second , by the ...
Page 103
... learning and the new methods of acquiring it . Since the moderns have rejected the past and each day cancels out the day before and new fashion succeeds new fashion , it is not possible to build up a body of learning . Every man must ...
... learning and the new methods of acquiring it . Since the moderns have rejected the past and each day cancels out the day before and new fashion succeeds new fashion , it is not possible to build up a body of learning . Every man must ...
Contents
The Nature of Satire | 7 |
The Satiric Focus I | 27 |
The Satiric Focus II | 38 |
Copyright | |
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