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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... tradition in which Swift wrote the Tale in order to indicate the direction and scope of his satire . Swift's attack on Catholicism and Dissent is no anachronism , as Professor Harth suggests , but part of a satiric tradition that began ...
... tradition in which Swift wrote the Tale in order to indicate the direction and scope of his satire . Swift's attack on Catholicism and Dissent is no anachronism , as Professor Harth suggests , but part of a satiric tradition that began ...
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... tradition which we call the satire on learning . The satire on learning is already an old tradition when Aristophanes created the portrait of Socrates in Clouds as a pedantic buffoon suspended in a basket , arguing learnedly that black ...
... tradition which we call the satire on learning . The satire on learning is already an old tradition when Aristophanes created the portrait of Socrates in Clouds as a pedantic buffoon suspended in a basket , arguing learnedly that black ...
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... tradition of scepticism if only because it is a satire against mankind , in the manner of Boileau's Eighth Satire and the more or less free imitations by Oldham , Rochester and Robert Gould . This kind of satire is predominantly an ...
... tradition of scepticism if only because it is a satire against mankind , in the manner of Boileau's Eighth Satire and the more or less free imitations by Oldham , Rochester and Robert Gould . This kind of satire is predominantly an ...
Contents
The Nature of Satire | 7 |
The Satiric Focus I | 27 |
The Satiric Focus II | 38 |
Copyright | |
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