Jonathan Swift
the fictions of the satirist
by Jean-Paul Forster
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Much has been written on Swift and his principal satires. But surprisingly little attention has been paid to the imagination of the great Augustan satirist. His satirical deployment of fictions has never been systematically examined. Yet it is the aspect of his work which has done more than anything else to endear him to readers.
The critical implications of this fact are the subject of Jonathan Swift: The Fictions of the Satirist. Against the current tendency to stress the relationship between the work and the life of the man or his age, J.-P. Forster explores the parodic devices and other fictional patterns by means of which the satirist produces his biting vision of man as a social and political animal.
He argues that it is these fictional devices that enable Swift to construct his uncanny satirical reference to reality and to produce satirical effects that irony and rhetoric could never achieve by themselves. The book highlights the inventiveness of the satirist and his skill at manipulating the reader's expectations. It presents Swift as a man of the Age of Reason ever ready to call the imagination to the rescue of common sense.
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Early works to 1800, English Satire, English language, Fiction, History and criticism, Rhetoric, Satire, English, Technique, Swift, jonathan, 1667-1745, English language, rhetoric, Satire, english, history and criticism, Fiction, technique, English fiction, history and criticism, 18th centuryPeople
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Jonathan Swift: the fictions of the satirist : from parody to vision
1998, P. Lang, Lang Publishing, Incorporated, Peter
in English
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Jonathan Swift
December 1992, Herbert & Cie Lang AG, Buchhandlung Antiquariat
Hardcover
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Jonathan Swift: the fictions of the satirist
1991, P. Lang, Lang Publishing, Incorporated, Peter
in English
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