Swift's parody /
Jonathan Swift's prose has been discussed extensively as satire, but its major structural element, parody, has not received the attention it deserves. Focusing mainly on works before 1714, and especially on A Tale of a Tub, this study explores Swift's writing primarily as parody. Robert Ph...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
©1995.
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in eighteenth-century English literature and thought ;
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Theoretical orientations. Three theories of quotation. The idea of parody under erasure. Illegitimate textuality: the pre-texts of Swiftian parody
- 2. Restoration enterprises and their rhetorics. The burden of the past and a definition of restoration enterprise. The restoration of true religion. The ordering of scientific language and method. Restoration enterprises in other realms of culture. The structure of political ideology and discourse. The sphere of orthodox utterance
- 3. Parody and the play of stigma in pamphlet warfare. Intertextual insults: political debate and the sin of faction. Defoe's Shortest Way With Dissenters: encoded triggers to parodic reading. Swift and Collins: the play of parodic stigma
- 4. The problem of anarchic parody: An Argument against Abolishing Christianity. Parody as homily: the pious solution. Overdetermined silences: problems with the pious solution. The Argument as an essay in Shaftesburian ridicule.
