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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... mind , I come to set forth the true way for the interpretation of nature . " 11 Bacon's faith in his mastery of fortune and his access to " the true way " smacks of the self - electing posi- tions taken by many of Swift's satiric butts ...
... mind , I come to set forth the true way for the interpretation of nature . " 11 Bacon's faith in his mastery of fortune and his access to " the true way " smacks of the self - electing posi- tions taken by many of Swift's satiric butts ...
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... mind , He flies , and leaves the stars behind ; Counts all his labours amply paid , Adores her for her timely aid . ( 35-38 ) The grubby origins of such would - be transcendence are stressed by Swift , who mocks the " goddesses " found ...
... mind , He flies , and leaves the stars behind ; Counts all his labours amply paid , Adores her for her timely aid . ( 35-38 ) The grubby origins of such would - be transcendence are stressed by Swift , who mocks the " goddesses " found ...
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... mind both facilitates and blocks full self- realization , but must move beyond this paradox since , as D. H. Lawrence wrote with regard to Whitman , " the soul's deepest will is to preserve its own integrity , against the mind and the ...
... mind both facilitates and blocks full self- realization , but must move beyond this paradox since , as D. H. Lawrence wrote with regard to Whitman , " the soul's deepest will is to preserve its own integrity , against the mind and the ...
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List of Abbreviations 11 | 11 |
What Posterity Meant to Swift | 40 |
Satire and the Future | 59 |
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