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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... letter offers extraordinary difficulties not to readers but to critics . Letters must of course depend for their life upon both his- tory and biography . We cannot begin to judge their art until we recover the razed , built - over world ...
... letter offers extraordinary difficulties not to readers but to critics . Letters must of course depend for their life upon both his- tory and biography . We cannot begin to judge their art until we recover the razed , built - over world ...
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... letter is of a recognizable kind . Here Swift is usually clear , making his purpose plain and suiting his manner to it . In dwelling on such principles , I do not mean to ignore older doctrine , such as the comparison of a fine letter ...
... letter is of a recognizable kind . Here Swift is usually clear , making his purpose plain and suiting his manner to it . In dwelling on such principles , I do not mean to ignore older doctrine , such as the comparison of a fine letter ...
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... letter to Archbishop King - must reverberate with such irony . But the hoax letter is more resonant . Similing sympathetic- ally , we can stand beside the original recipient , watch his puzzled amusement , and employ our limited ...
... letter to Archbishop King - must reverberate with such irony . But the hoax letter is more resonant . Similing sympathetic- ally , we can stand beside the original recipient , watch his puzzled amusement , and employ our limited ...
Contents
Prefatory Note 793 | 9 |
Reflections on Swift | 21 |
A Tale of a Tub | 83 |
Copyright | |
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