Swift; a Collection of Critical Essays, כרך 8Prentice-Hall, 1964 - 176 עמודים Twentieth century critics have rediscovered in Jonathan Swift an outspoken commentary on the complex and ultimately unsolvable mystery of human nature. The essays collected here document the process of the reversal which has rescued Swift from the disgust and near-hatred of earlier readers. Several paths to re-evaluation are followed by these critics. Through careful research they uncover the facts of Swift's political and social involvement and his part in the philosophical battles of his age. Their efforts reveal and artist who transcended the ordinary, who recast the moral climate of an age into the allegorical voyages of Lemuel Gulliver. The second part is an analysis of Swift's method. A third approach considers each part of Swift's masterpiece in the context of the whole oeuvre and the whole man. Is Gulliver Swift? Do the Yahoos really represent mankind? Is Houyhnhnmland really the perfect society? The critical reinstatement of a great author is a dramatic process and one that illuminates modern criticism at its creative best. -- From publisher's description. |
תוכן
VINTRODUCTIONErnest Tuveson | 1 |
OF SWIFTRicardo Quintana | 91 |
THE DEAN AS SATIRISTErnest Tuveson | 101 |
זכויות יוצרים | |
4 קטעים אחרים שאינם מוצגים
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
absurdity achieved allegory animal rationale argument attitude beast Brobdingnag Brobdingnagian Caelia century chapters character Christian Church civilized comedy comic satire corrosive satire corruption creatures criticism doctrine edited effect England English essay essence evil excremental vision F. R. Leavis fact fiction final fourth book fourth voyage genital Gulliver Gulliver's Travels Henry horse Houyhnhnm Master human nature Huxley Hythloday idea ideal imagination Irish irony Isaac Bickerstaff J. B. Bury Jonathan Swift kind king last voyage Lemuel Lemuel Gulliver literary Locke Locke's madness means Mechanical Operation method mind misanthropy modern Modest Proposal moral More's Murry myth neurosis neurosis of mankind never original original sin parody passage passionate person philosopher poems political pride psychoanalysis Quintana rational reader reason religion religious satirist scatology sense species Spirit Stillingfleet Struldbrugs sublimation Swiftian symbolic Tale theme things thought tion truth Utopia virtue word writes Yahoos