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 61
... magic , the same kind of magic that Irenaeus fought in his attack on the 25 Gnostics , evolving from the same doctrine . The Renaissance man seemed to hunger for magic , and the hunger was fed by the recovery in the 1460's of the ...
... magic , the same kind of magic that Irenaeus fought in his attack on the 25 Gnostics , evolving from the same doctrine . The Renaissance man seemed to hunger for magic , and the hunger was fed by the recovery in the 1460's of the ...
Page 62
... magic in the mid- seventeenth century was largely a revival of Paracelsan doctrines . From Paracelsus to the Tale is an interval of some 150 years . For most of this period Gnostic magic40 and demonism were considered to be a sanctified ...
... magic in the mid- seventeenth century was largely a revival of Paracelsan doctrines . From Paracelsus to the Tale is an interval of some 150 years . For most of this period Gnostic magic40 and demonism were considered to be a sanctified ...
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... Magic , p . 499 . 11 " Anthropology and the Study of Witchcraft , " in Witchcraft , Confessions and Accusations , pp . 53 and 83 . 12 Religion and the Decline of Magic , p . 477. The religious satires of the time , John Oldham's , for ...
... Magic , p . 499 . 11 " Anthropology and the Study of Witchcraft , " in Witchcraft , Confessions and Accusations , pp . 53 and 83 . 12 Religion and the Decline of Magic , p . 477. The religious satires of the time , John Oldham's , for ...
Contents
The Nature of Satire | 7 |
The Satiric Focus I | 27 |
The Satiric Focus II | 38 |
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