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 114
... machine outnumber the images of man as beast by almost three to one . The third basic satiric image , that of madness , presents some difficulties here , first , because it is often hard to separate it from the bestial , and second ...
... machine outnumber the images of man as beast by almost three to one . The third basic satiric image , that of madness , presents some difficulties here , first , because it is often hard to separate it from the bestial , and second ...
Page 123
... machine , for the most part moves round and round in a kind of perpetual motion from lightness and bombast to weightiness and stupidity , from wind and vapours emanating from the lower parts to the upper parts , from words empty as wind ...
... machine , for the most part moves round and round in a kind of perpetual motion from lightness and bombast to weightiness and stupidity , from wind and vapours emanating from the lower parts to the upper parts , from words empty as wind ...
Page 111
... machine , for example , is real machine . Words are explicitly turned into things . The dietary possibilities of knowledge are described in physiological rather than mystical terms . But the movement of the imagery is from machine to ...
... machine , for example , is real machine . Words are explicitly turned into things . The dietary possibilities of knowledge are described in physiological rather than mystical terms . But the movement of the imagery is from machine to ...
Contents
The Nature of Satire | 7 |
The Satiric Focus I | 27 |
The Satiric Focus II | 38 |
Copyright | |
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