Jonathan SwiftNorthcote House, 2004 - 114 páginas The book's focus is the major satires upon which Swift's literary reputation principally rests, including A Tale of a Tub, Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal and the infamous scatological poems. Swift was the greatest prose satirist in the English language and this critical analysis highlights the extremism of Swiftian satire and its off-the-page menaces. |
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... contemporary polemical contexts of Swift's most famous works . Swift's writings have generated a vast corpus of commentary ; nevertheless the scholarly recovery of contemporary contexts still affords the prospect of new angles on the ...
... contemporary polemical contexts of Swift's most famous works . Swift's writings have generated a vast corpus of commentary ; nevertheless the scholarly recovery of contemporary contexts still affords the prospect of new angles on the ...
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... contemporary Anglican polemic is incorporated into the texture of Swift's satire . For instance , in one of these pamphlet attacks , Tom Brown's The Late Converts Exposed , Dryden's use of the quota- tion from Virgil in the epigraph on ...
... contemporary Anglican polemic is incorporated into the texture of Swift's satire . For instance , in one of these pamphlet attacks , Tom Brown's The Late Converts Exposed , Dryden's use of the quota- tion from Virgil in the epigraph on ...
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... contemporary travel book as well as being a convenient frame for the satire also offered important targets . In the egoism of contemporary first - person voyage accounts Swift found modern hubris writ large , which this mock - travel ...
... contemporary travel book as well as being a convenient frame for the satire also offered important targets . In the egoism of contemporary first - person voyage accounts Swift found modern hubris writ large , which this mock - travel ...
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A Tale of a Tub | 27 |
Gullivers Travels | 55 |
Poems | 82 |
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Jonathan Swift: The Essential Writings : Authoritative Texts, Contexts ... Jonathan Swift Vista de fragmentos - 2010 |
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The Eighteenth-century Novel and Contemporary Social Issues: An Introduction Stuart Sim No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 2008 |