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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... irony as Swift shrank from plain statement . Bate notes that Marmor Norfolciense failed because " indirect and drawn - out irony was never . . . Johnson's forte , ” and that much Johnsonian irony resembles that of Hardy rather than that ...
... irony as Swift shrank from plain statement . Bate notes that Marmor Norfolciense failed because " indirect and drawn - out irony was never . . . Johnson's forte , ” and that much Johnsonian irony resembles that of Hardy rather than that ...
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... irony . The great eighteenth - century novelists — of course — make the in- dividual and his feelings their central subject : and this , on the whole , meant excluding the ironic persona , though not , of course , irony . Here — until ...
... irony . The great eighteenth - century novelists — of course — make the in- dividual and his feelings their central subject : and this , on the whole , meant excluding the ironic persona , though not , of course , irony . Here — until ...
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... irony ; Johnson brings himself - his own anger , not to say unhappiness - into the irony : he is not outside the ironic contradiction of attitudes but within it : he knows and relishes the folly of his own hyperbolic impatience , and ...
... irony ; Johnson brings himself - his own anger , not to say unhappiness - into the irony : he is not outside the ironic contradiction of attitudes but within it : he knows and relishes the folly of his own hyperbolic impatience , and ...
Contents
Prefatory Note 793 | 9 |
Reflections on Swift | 21 |
A Tale of a Tub | 83 |
Copyright | |
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