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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... turns the Flame Pois'ning the Flesh from whence it came ; And up exhales a greasy Stench , For which you curse the careless Wench ; So Things , which must not be exprest , When plumped into the reeking Chest ; Send up an excremental ...
... turns the Flame Pois'ning the Flesh from whence it came ; And up exhales a greasy Stench , For which you curse the careless Wench ; So Things , which must not be exprest , When plumped into the reeking Chest ; Send up an excremental ...
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... turns time into a profoundly disturbing , alienating force - alienating , paradoxi- cally , because it treats all bodies alike . Swift's satiric revenge attempts the adjustment of this universal fact of mortality . In his hands time is ...
... turns time into a profoundly disturbing , alienating force - alienating , paradoxi- cally , because it treats all bodies alike . Swift's satiric revenge attempts the adjustment of this universal fact of mortality . In his hands time is ...
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... turns out , since aging and death are denied . Rather it is a vision of small , successive , present moments , not ... turn and with finality by time . There is pathos in her vigorous affirmation— ” I'll have youth and beauty still ...
... turns out , since aging and death are denied . Rather it is a vision of small , successive , present moments , not ... turn and with finality by time . There is pathos in her vigorous affirmation— ” I'll have youth and beauty still ...
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List of Abbreviations 11 | 11 |
What Posterity Meant to Swift | 40 |
Satire and the Future | 59 |
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