Swift Studies, 1965-1980
Author | : Richard H. Rodino |
Publisher | : Scholarly Title |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Richard H. Rodino |
Publisher | : Scholarly Title |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Christopher Fox |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2003-09-11 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521002837 |
The Cambridge Companion to Jonathan Swift is a specially commissioned collection of essays. Arranged thematically across a range of topics, this volume will deepen and extend the enjoyment and understanding of Jonathan Swift for students and scholars. The thirteen essays explore crucial dimensions of Swift s life and works. As well as ensuring a broad coverage of Swift s writing - including early and later works as well as the better known and the lesser known - the Companion also offers a way into current critical and theoretical issues surrounding the author. Special emphasis is placed on Swift s vexed relationship with the land of his birth, Ireland; and on his place as a political writer in a highly politicised age. The Companion offers a lucid introduction to these and other issues, and raises new questions about Swift and his world. The volume features a detailed chronology and a guide to further reading.
Author | : Jonathan Swift |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2008-07-10 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0192669540 |
A Tale of a Tub is the masterpiece of Swift's earlier years. It is presented here with The Battle of the Books, The Mechanical Operation of the Spirit, and the Additions. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Author | : Paul J. DeGategno |
Publisher | : Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages | : 481 |
Release | : 2014-05-14 |
Genre | : Authors, Irish |
ISBN | : 1438108516 |
Provides a comprehensive alphabetical reference to the life and work of Jonathan Swift.
Author | : James A Rembret |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 1988-02-16 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1349190721 |
Author | : Michael J. Marcuse |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 2816 |
Release | : 2023-11-10 |
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ISBN | : 0520321871 |
Author | : Hermann J. Real |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2013-02-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1623561388 |
Jonathan Swift has had a profound impact on almost all the national literatures of Continental Europe. The celebrated author of acknowledged masterpieces like A Tale of a Tub (1704), Gulliver's Travels (1726), and A Modest Proposal (1729), the Dean of St Patrick's, Dublin, was courted by innumerable translators, adaptors, and retellers, admired and challenged by shoals of critics, and creatively imitated by both novelists and playwrights, not only in Central Europe (Germany and Switzerland) but also in its northern (Denmark and Sweden) and southern (Italy, Spain, and Portugal) outposts, as well as its eastern (Poland and Russia, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria) and Western parts - from the beginning of the eighteenth century to the present day.
Author | : Keith Crook |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2014-07-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1317888324 |
Jonathan Swift's moral and political satires astonished his contemporaries and still have the power to disturb, with their compelling images and unsettling turns of argument, and to delight, with their charm and inventive wit. A Preface to Swift examines the complex appeal of this fierce critic of oppression. While thematically arranged, the text follows a broadly chronological account of Swift's life to show his development as a writer from the prolific and inventive iconoclast to the mature satirist whose enduring memory of past events produced warm friendship as well as strong resentment. It considers in detail his engagement with the corruption of over-secure politicians and his opposition to the easy rationalism of free-thinking pundits. Gulliver's Travels is shown to be a coherent critique of eighteenth-century ideas of science, education and politics in which the order of the books ('the progress of the fable') is highly significant for its whole meaning. While this is a major focus, Keith Crook also discusses a wide range of Swift's other works, including his early satires, his political writings, his poems and his letters. Detailed chronological charts place his life and works in the political and cultural context, and illustrations have been chosen with commentaries to extend the reader's sense of Swift's connections with London, Ireland and his contemporaries. This will be a particularly useful introduction to students who are studying satire as a genre; the early eighteenth-century literary, scientific, philosophical and political context; the representation of women; the political relation of Ireland to England; and the position of the artist within society, especially in connection with the levers of power.
Author | : Joseph McMinn |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 182 |
Release | : 2016-07-27 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1349212539 |
This biography emphasises the extraordinary versatility and resourcefulness of a lifetime spent serving the public interest with the pen. At the same time, it shows Swift's distinctive love of writing for personal entertainment and diversion, with little or no interest in publication. While remaining a fiercely committed writer, he always tried to preserve, especially in his poetry and letters, a literature dedicated to friendship. Swift's literary career comprises much more than the well-known satires.