Swift's Anatomy of Misunderstanding: A Study of Swift's Epistemological Imagination in A Tale of a Tub and Gulliver's TravelsBarnes & Noble Books, 1981 - 193 pagina's This is a detailed examination of one of Swift's most central concerns, man's capacity for misunderstanding. After reviewing the pertinent Swift scholarship, Frances Louis relates some of the older views of the satires to the one she proposes, namely that judgment-or lack of it-is the crux of Swift's satiric fiction. |
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CHAPTER II | 12 |
The Language of Reason | 21 |
Levelling and the Cult of I | 28 |
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