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 118
... movement from high to low , upper to lower , light to dark , lightness to grossness and excrement . In each case the extremes meet on the same circumference , " the fixed Foot of each , remaining in the same Center " ; in each case the ...
... movement from high to low , upper to lower , light to dark , lightness to grossness and excrement . In each case the extremes meet on the same circumference , " the fixed Foot of each , remaining in the same Center " ; in each case the ...
Page 54
... movement of the irony in Book II , from the gross animality of the Brobding- nagians to the destructive powers of Gulliver's mind ( Gulliver being Western man ) , an animality more monstrous by far . While the main ironic movement ...
... movement of the irony in Book II , from the gross animality of the Brobding- nagians to the destructive powers of Gulliver's mind ( Gulliver being Western man ) , an animality more monstrous by far . While the main ironic movement ...
Page 57
... movement , is subsumed in the main inquisitorial scene of Chapter VI . Then the ironic movement slows and broadens . The whole spectrum of govern- ment and law , barely outlined in Chapter III , is now explained at length . Almost the ...
... movement , is subsumed in the main inquisitorial scene of Chapter VI . Then the ironic movement slows and broadens . The whole spectrum of govern- ment and law , barely outlined in Chapter III , is now explained at length . Almost the ...
Contents
The Nature of Satire | 7 |
The Satiric Focus I | 27 |
The Satiric Focus II | 38 |
Copyright | |
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