The Character of Swift's Satire: A Revised FocusClaude Julien Rawson The nature, style, and targets of Swift's witty, biting, and sometimes violent satire are critically investigated in this collection of essays. They portray Swift's social criticism in the light of his involvement in the politics of Anglo-Irish relations, and trace his literary roots, describing his connection with the Renaissance and studying his use of cliches and rhetoric. |
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Page 113
... human seed from the human body is a human form . The seed collecting in the generative organ is ejected in the direction from which the film of a bodily form floats into the mind . Swift ( sec.9 ) refers to Lucretius ( 4.1048-65 ) ...
... human seed from the human body is a human form . The seed collecting in the generative organ is ejected in the direction from which the film of a bodily form floats into the mind . Swift ( sec.9 ) refers to Lucretius ( 4.1048-65 ) ...
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... human nature and human reason on the internal arrangements of the human world , and the centrality of the human figure with his weaknesses and vulnerabilities as a representative of his kind . Swift , following suggestions for form as ...
... human nature and human reason on the internal arrangements of the human world , and the centrality of the human figure with his weaknesses and vulnerabilities as a representative of his kind . Swift , following suggestions for form as ...
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... human beings . Where in More the reader can hardly resist feeling that the inhabitants of Utopia might revert to ordinary corruption , given the chance ( but there is " no lurking hole , no secret meeting place " ; p . 147 ) , in ...
... human beings . Where in More the reader can hardly resist feeling that the inhabitants of Utopia might revert to ordinary corruption , given the chance ( but there is " no lurking hole , no secret meeting place " ; p . 147 ) , in ...
Contents
Prefatory Note 793 | 9 |
Reflections on Swift | 21 |
A Tale of a Tub | 83 |
Copyright | |
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