If one were looking for a theory of quotation to described the practice of Swiftian parody, it would be difficult to better this: We now know that a text is not a line of words releasing a single 'theological' meaning (the 'message' of the Author-God) but a multi-dimensional space in which a variety of writings, none of them original, blend and clash.
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Swift's Parody
March 16, 2006, Cambridge University Press
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"If one were looking for a theory of quotation to described the practice of Swiftian parody, it would be difficult to better this: We now know that a text is not a line of words releasing a single 'theological' meaning (the 'message' of the Author-God) but a multi-dimensional space in which a variety of writings, none of them original, blend and clash."
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