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 102
... mind at work . Swift dwells on the Grub Street mind throughout the Tale , but particularly here in Section III and in the other digressions . His purpose is to show the cerebral involutions through which a modern attains gnosis , which ...
... mind at work . Swift dwells on the Grub Street mind throughout the Tale , but particularly here in Section III and in the other digressions . His purpose is to show the cerebral involutions through which a modern attains gnosis , which ...
Page 123
... mind at work , at least enough mind ( though no more ) to suggest pretense . The Grubbean machine pretends to meaning . It conveys an impression of enormous scholarship , painstaking calcula- tions and philosophical speculations , hours ...
... mind at work , at least enough mind ( though no more ) to suggest pretense . The Grubbean machine pretends to meaning . It conveys an impression of enormous scholarship , painstaking calcula- tions and philosophical speculations , hours ...
Page 113
... mind , a progression towards increasing darkness . The un - Grubbean sort of reason that cuts and pierces is ruled out from the start : " In my Disposure of Employments of the Brain , " the hack explains , " I have thought fit to make ...
... mind , a progression towards increasing darkness . The un - Grubbean sort of reason that cuts and pierces is ruled out from the start : " In my Disposure of Employments of the Brain , " the hack explains , " I have thought fit to make ...
Contents
The Nature of Satire | 7 |
The Satiric Focus I | 27 |
The Satiric Focus II | 38 |
Copyright | |
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