Jonathan Swift and the Burden of the FutureUniversity of Delaware Press, 1995 - 175 ページ "Alan Chalmers's Jonathan Swift and the Burden of the Future explores Swift's temporal apprehension in the context of the pertinent seventeenth- and eighteenth-century religious, scientific, and cultural debates. It also compares Swift's imaginative understanding of time with that of such other writers as Juvenal, Rabelais, Milton, Pope, Gray, and Whitman."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved |
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... fact , not sim- ply against ephemeral targets . If the war against the temporal facts of life is a futile one , it is on the page , if anywhere , that small battles can be fought and won ; and it is here , in va- rious authorial ...
... fact , not sim- ply against ephemeral targets . If the war against the temporal facts of life is a futile one , it is on the page , if anywhere , that small battles can be fought and won ; and it is here , in va- rious authorial ...
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... fact , corporeal fact , " 17 and his practical empiricism , whatever its limita- tions , generates the imaginative energy of the book . It is why children like it . 18 And even the most subtle of Swift's satiric strate- gies depend on ...
... fact , corporeal fact , " 17 and his practical empiricism , whatever its limita- tions , generates the imaginative energy of the book . It is why children like it . 18 And even the most subtle of Swift's satiric strate- gies depend on ...
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... facts wrong - facts that draw attention to themselves in the text by the pedantry with which they are elaborated ; and by ... fact thus turns out to be the most tenuous , if not downright erroneous . To make matters worse , Gulliver has ...
... facts wrong - facts that draw attention to themselves in the text by the pedantry with which they are elaborated ; and by ... fact thus turns out to be the most tenuous , if not downright erroneous . To make matters worse , Gulliver has ...
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List of Abbreviations 11 | 11 |
What Posterity Meant to Swift | 40 |
Satire and the Future | 59 |
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