Name: Jonathan Swift Paperback
SKU: 7585875
Price: 64.81 EUR
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Author: Donoghue, Denis
ISBN: 9780521141352

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Author

Denis Donoghue

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Year

2010

Language

English

Pages

244

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.6x14x1.4 cm

Weight

0.31 kg.

ISBN

521141354

ISBN13

9780521141352

Synopsis "Jonathan Swift Paperback "

In this concise critical survey, Professor Donoghue looks at Swift's whole output, and expresses a fresh sense of his literary character. In particular, he questions the widespread view that Swift is to be understood in terms of irony, persona or mask. He points out, for instance, that Swift's irony is not continuous, and that his sense of form is not ours. We should not see him as producing elaborate artistic structures, but as meeting particular needs which forced themselves upon him. We need also to identify the 'gestures' through which Swift revealed his characteristic mental attitudes, and behind them to sense his general life-stance; to understand his devices - such as the choice and change of perspective; his deeper pre-occupations - such as the relationship between the body, the mind and the soul; his attitude to and use of language; his conception of the nature of humanity; the characteristics of his verse.

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