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- catalog abstract ""Much has been written on Swift and his principal satires. But surprisingly little attention has been paid to the imagination of the great Augustan satirist. His satirical deployment of fictions has never been systematically examined. Yet it is the aspect of his work which has done more than anything else to endear him to readers." "The critical implications of this fact are the subject of Jonathan Swift: The Fictions of the Satirist. Against the current tendency to stress the relationship between the work and the life of the man or his age, J.-P. Forster explores the parodic devices and other fictional patterns by means of which the satirist produces his biting vision of man as a social and political animal. He argues that it is these fictional devices that enable Swift to construct his uncanny satirical reference to reality and to produce satirical effects that irony and rhetoric could never achieve by themselves. The book highlights the inventiveness of the satirist and his skill at manipulating the reader's expectations. It presents Swift as a man of the Age of Reason ever ready to call the imagination to the rescue of common sense."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b10802289.
- catalog created "1998.".
- catalog date "1998".
- catalog date "1998.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1998.".
- catalog description ""Much has been written on Swift and his principal satires. But surprisingly little attention has been paid to the imagination of the great Augustan satirist. His satirical deployment of fictions has never been systematically examined. Yet it is the aspect of his work which has done more than anything else to endear him to readers." "The critical implications of this fact are the subject of Jonathan Swift: The Fictions of the Satirist. Against the current tendency to stress the relationship between the work and the life of the man or his age, J.-P. Forster explores the parodic devices and other fictional patterns by means of which the satirist produces his biting vision of man as a social and political animal. He argues that it is these fictional devices that enable Swift to construct his uncanny satirical reference to reality and to produce satirical effects that irony and rhetoric could never achieve by themselves. The book highlights the inventiveness of the satirist and his skill at manipulating the reader's expectations. It presents Swift as a man of the Age of Reason ever ready to call the imagination to the rescue of common sense."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "1. The Satirical Use of Framing Fictions -- 2. From Framing to Framed Fictions -- 3. The Metamorphoses of the Body -- 4. Fictional Patterns, Laughter, Meaning.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "258 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Jonathan Swift.".
- catalog identifier "0820434388 (U.S. : pbk.)".
- catalog identifier "3906757811 (pbk.)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Jonathan Swift.".
- catalog issued "1998".
- catalog issued "1998.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Berne ; New York : P. Lang,".
- catalog relation "Jonathan Swift.".
- catalog subject "828/.509 21".
- catalog subject "English language 18th century Rhetoric.".
- catalog subject "English language Rhetoric.".
- catalog subject "Fiction Technique.".
- catalog subject "PR3728.S2 F67 1998".
- catalog subject "Satire, English History and criticism.".
- catalog subject "Swift, Jonathan, 1667-1745 Technique.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. The Satirical Use of Framing Fictions -- 2. From Framing to Framed Fictions -- 3. The Metamorphoses of the Body -- 4. Fictional Patterns, Laughter, Meaning.".
- catalog title "Jonathan Swift : the fictions of the satirist : from parody to vision / Jean-Paul Forster.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".