Jonathan Swift In Context

Author : Joseph Hone
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108924557
Total Pages : 718 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jonathan Swift in Context written by Joseph Hone and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-09 with total page 718 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jonathan Swift remains the most important and influential satirist in the English language. The author of Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal, and A Tale of a Tub, in addition to vast numbers of political pamphlets, satirical verses, sermons, and other kinds of text, Swift is one of the most versatile writers in the literary canon. His writings were always closely intertwined with the English and Irish worlds in which he lived. The forty-four essays collected in Jonathan Swift in Context advance the latest research on Swift in a way that will engage undergraduate students while also remaining useful for scholars. Reflecting the best of current and ongoing scholarship, the contextual approach advanced by this volume will help to make Swift's works even more powerful and resonant to modern audiences.

Author : Jonathan Swift
Publisher : Modernista
ISBN 13 : 9180949193
Total Pages : 14 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Modest Proposal written by Jonathan Swift and published by Modernista. This book was released on 2024-05-30 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In one of the most powerful and darkly satirical works of the 18th century, a chilling solution is proposed to address the dire poverty and overpopulation plaguing Ireland. Jonathan Swift presents a shockingly calculated and seemingly rational argument for using the children of the poor as a food source, thereby addressing both the economic burden on society and the issue of hunger. This provocative piece is a masterful example of irony and social criticism, as it exposes the cruel attitudes and policies of the British ruling class towards the Irish populace. Jonathan Swift's incisive critique not only underscores the absurdity of the proposed solution but also serves as a profound commentary on the exploitation and mistreatment of the oppressed. A Modest Proposal remains a quintessential example of satirical literature, its biting wit and moral indignation as relevant today as it was at the time of its publication. JONATHAN SWIFT [1667-1745] was an Anglo-Irish author, poet, and satirist. His deadpan satire led to the coining of the term »Swiftian«, describing satire of similarly ironic writing style. He is most famous for the novel Gulliver’s Travels [1726] and the essay A Modest Proposal [1729].

Author : Clive T. Probyn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jonathan Swift, the Contemporary Background written by Clive T. Probyn and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Leo Damrosch
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300164998
Total Pages : 587 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jonathan Swift written by Leo Damrosch and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-12 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Draws on discoveries made in the past three decades to paint a new portrait of the satirist, speculating on his parentage, love life, and relationships while claiming that the public image he projected was intentionally misleading.

Author : Nigel Wood
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131789314X
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jonathan Swift written by Nigel Wood and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of critical thinking situates the satire of Jonathan Swift within both its eighteenth-century contexts and our modern anxieties about personal identity and communication. Augustan satire at its most provocative is not simply concerned with the public matters of politics or religion, but also offers a precise medium in which to express the paradox of ironic detachment amidst deep conviction. The critics chosen for this volume demonstrate the complexity of Swift's work. Its four sections explore matters of authorial identity, the relation between Swift's writing and its historical context, the full range of his comments on gender, and his deployment of metaphor and irony to engage the reader. Swift has often been regarded as a writer who anticipated many twentieth-century cultural preoccupations, and this volume provides an opportunity to test just how modern he actually was. It also provides an answer to those who would wish to simplify his writing as that of Tory and misogynist. The theoretical perspectives of the contributors are lucidly explained and their critical terms located in the wider contexts of contemporary theory in the introduction and headnotes. The volume places Swift historically within the philosophical and religious traditions of eighteenth-century thought.

Author : Paddy Bullard
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107016266
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jonathan Swift and the Eighteenth-Century Book written by Paddy Bullard and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of Swift's dealings with books and texts, showing how the business of print was transformed during his lifetime.

Author : Maria-Angeles Ruiz Moneva
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527554716
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Modest Proposal in the Context of Swift’s Irish Tracts written by Maria-Angeles Ruiz Moneva and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06-12 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Swift's A Modest Proposal has always aroused the interest not just of literary critics, but also of linguists and pragmatists. Within the latter approaches, the study of irony, and more concretely, the intentions and attitudes that must have guided the production of such an intricate work, have always been paramount. However, it seems that within pragmatics the analysis has been restricted so far to the 1729 work itself. In the present author's view, it is interesting to contextualise this masterpiece of irony and satire within Swift's wider writing on Ireland, an approach that remains to be carried out. Accordingly, this work sets out to analyse a selection of Swift’s Irish Tracts, with a view to tracing the evolution within Swift's literary production of his views and attitudes towards the situation of his homeland. Although different pragmatic approaches are applied, the emphasis is laid upon the contributions that the relevance-theoretical framework and its studies on irony may bring to the understanding of this particular Tract. The works selected are meant to cover and also be representative of the main phases currently distinguished within Swift's writing on the "Irish Question". It is therefore hoped that a deeper analysis of the former works by Swift on this topic will provide new insights for a better understanding of A Modest Proposal.

Author : Jonathan Swift
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451685742
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gulliver's Travels and A Modest Proposal written by Jonathan Swift and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By turns a children's fantasy and a social satire for adults, Gulliver's Travels is one of the most popular adventure tales of all time. Gulliver's Travels describes the four fantastic voyages of Lemuel Gulliver, a kindly ship's surgeon. Swift portrays him as an observer, a reporter, and a victim of circumstance. His travels take him to Lilliput where he is a giant observing tiny people. In Brobdingnag, the tables are reversed and he is the tiny person in a land of giants where he is exhibited as a curiosity at markets and fairs. The flying island of Laputa is the scene of his next voyage. The people plan and plot as their country lies in ruins. It is a world of illusion and distorted values. The fourth and final voyage takes him to the home of the Houyhnhnms, gentle horses who rule the land. He also encounters Yahoos, filthy bestial creatures who resemble humans. This edition includes: -A concise introduction that gives readers important background information -A chronology of the author's life and work -A timeline of significant events that provides the book's historical context -An outline of key themes and plot points to help readers form their own interpretations -Detailed explanatory notes -Critical analysis, including contemporary and modern perspectives on the work -Discussion questions to promote lively classroom and book group interaction -A list of recommended related books and films to broaden the reader's experience Enriched Classics offer readers affordable editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and insightful commentary. The scholarship provided in Enriched Classics enables readers to appreciate, understand, and enjoy the world's finest books to their full potential.

Author : Jonathan Swift
Publisher : Echo Library
ISBN 13 : 9781603037228
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gulliver's Travels written by Jonathan Swift and published by Echo Library. This book was released on 2011-08-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Leslie Stephen
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Swift written by Leslie Stephen and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-11 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Swift" by Leslie Stephen. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.