Swift As Nemesis

Modernity And Its Satirist

by Frank Thomas Boyle
language: english
Publisher: Stanford University Press, July of 2000 ‧
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How do we read the works of Jonathan Swift, who ridiculed the modern even as it was taking shape? The author approaches the question of modernity in Swift by way of a theory of satire from Aristotle via Swift (and Bakhtin) that eschews modern notions that satire is meant to reform and correct.

Swift As Nemesis

Modernity And Its Satirist

by Frank Thomas Boyle

Property Description
ISBN: 9780804734363
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date: July of 2000
Language: English
Dimensions: 148 x 226 x 22 mm
Cover: Hardcover
Pages: 264
Format: Book
Collection: Verbal Art: Studies In Poetics S.
Categories: Books in English > Fiction > History of Literature
EAN: 9780804734363

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