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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... less true . 14 What is less often noticed , however , is the way in which Swift himself cultivates this interest , by sensing and exploiting what Roland Barthes said about writing — that in a sense death begins with it.15 Clearly while ...
... less true . 14 What is less often noticed , however , is the way in which Swift himself cultivates this interest , by sensing and exploiting what Roland Barthes said about writing — that in a sense death begins with it.15 Clearly while ...
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... less threatening than the buffeted , beleaguered Juvenal would make them seem . He makes of the past a literary resource , and crafts it carefully , all the while maintaining the illusion of plainness and spontaneity . His resusci ...
... less threatening than the buffeted , beleaguered Juvenal would make them seem . He makes of the past a literary resource , and crafts it carefully , all the while maintaining the illusion of plainness and spontaneity . His resusci ...
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... less to instruct than to pass on the burden of disgust . The paradox here is that the ostensible message of Swift's satire its ethical rationale - is often made more forceful by the unreasonable sensibility that would seem to threaten ...
... less to instruct than to pass on the burden of disgust . The paradox here is that the ostensible message of Swift's satire its ethical rationale - is often made more forceful by the unreasonable sensibility that would seem to threaten ...
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List of Abbreviations 11 | 11 |
What Posterity Meant to Swift | 40 |
Satire and the Future | 59 |
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