Author : Richard Edward Compean
Publisher :
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 14,43 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Authors, English
ISBN :
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Ben Jonson and the Lucianic Tradition
Author : Douglas Duncan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 21,88 MB
Release : 1979-06-28
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0521223598
Duncan suggests Jonson's challenge to the audience originates in the practice of 'oblique teaching', which was developed by Erasmus and More out of their admiration for Lucian.
Swift and History
Author : Ashley Marshall
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 11,54 MB
Release : 2015-04-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1316300919
Swift has been said to have little interest in history; his attempts to write it have been disparaged and his desire to become Historiographer Royal ridiculed. Ashley Marshall argues that history mattered enormously to Swift. He read a vast amount of history and uses historical examples copiously in his own works. This study traces Swift's classical and modern historiographical inheritance; analyses his unsuccessful attempt to write a history of England; and offers radical re-reading of his History of the Four Last Years of the Queen. A systematic analysis of Swift's view of 'authority' is highly revealing. His attitudes toward power and authority, sovereigns' and subjects' rights, parliamentary representation, and succession are reflected in his lifelong engagement with and pervasive use of the past. Studying Swift and history enables a deeper understanding of his authoritarian and historiographically Tory outlook - and how it changed when Swift's party fell from power in 1714.
The Traditions of European Literature from Homer to Dante
Author : Barrett Wendell
Publisher :
Page : 696 pages
File Size : 12,35 MB
Release : 1921
Category : Christian literature, Early
ISBN :
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The Cambridge Companion to Jonathan Swift
Author : Christopher Fox
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 22,34 MB
Release : 2003-09-11
Category : 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.
SWIFT and the twentieth century
Author : MILTON VOIGT
Publisher :
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 20,90 MB
Release : 1964
Category :
ISBN :
Swiftian Inspirations
Author : Jonathan McCreedy
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 30,74 MB
Release : 2020-01-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1527546144
This book addresses key problems regarding Swiftian thought and satire, analyzing the inspirational cultural legacy which generations of writers, thinkers, and satirists have recurrently relied upon since the Enlightenment. Section One deals with the eighteenth century and the topics of truth, falsehood and madness. Section Two focuses on two film adaptations of Gulliver’s Travels as well as on allusions to Swiftian satire during the US Enlightenment and in post-racial America. Section Three looks at the politics of language, politeness, and satire within translation, and Section Four dwells upon the process of reading Swift in the age of post-truth and Brexit. It will be of interest to students and scholars of eighteenth-century literature and culture, modern-day politics as well as to those interested in satire, science fiction, and film adaptations of literary works.
The Mechanics of Wonder
Author : Gary Westfahl
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 15,47 MB
Release : 1998-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780853235637
This is a sustained argument about the idea of science fiction by a renowned critic. Overturning many received opinions, it is both controversial and stimulating Much of the controversy arises from Westfahl's resurrection of Hugo Gernsback - for decades a largely derided figure - as the true creator of science fiction. Following an initial demolition of earlier critics, Westfahl argues for Gernsback's importance. His argument is fully documented, showing a much greater familiarity with early American science fiction, particularly magazine fiction, than previous academic critics or historians. After his initial chapters on Gernsback, he examines the way in which the Gernsback tradition was adopted and modified by later magazine editors and early critics. This involves a re-evaluation of the importance of John W. Campbell to the history of science fiction as well as a very interesting critique of Robert Heinlein's Beyond the Horizon, one the seminal texts of American science fiction. In conclusion, Westfahl uses the theories of Gernsback and Campbell to develop a descriptive definition of science fiction and he explores the ramifications of that definition. The Mechanics of Wonder will arouse debate and force the questioning of presuppositions. No other book so closely examines the origins and development of the idea of science fiction, and it will stand among a small number of crucial texts with which every science fiction scholar or prospective science fiction scholar will have to read.
Swift's Poetry, 1900-1980
Author :
Publisher : Scholarly Title
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 32,20 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Reference
ISBN :
Classical Traditions in Science Fiction
Author : Brett M. Rogers
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 15,41 MB
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 0190228334
For all its concern with change in the present and future, science fiction is deeply rooted in the past and, surprisingly, engages especially deeply with the ancient world. Indeed, both as an area in which the meaning of "classics" is actively transformed and as an open-ended set of texts whose own 'classic' status is a matter of ongoing debate, science fiction reveals much about the roles played by ancient classics in modern times. Classical Traditions in Science Fiction is the first collection in English dedicated to the study of science fiction as a site of classical receptions, offering a much-needed mapping of that important cultural and intellectual terrain. This volume discusses a wide variety of representative examples from both classical antiquity and the past four hundred years of science fiction, beginning with science fiction's "rosy-fingered dawn" and moving toward the other-worldly literature of the present day. As it makes its way through the eras of science fiction, Classical Traditions in Science Fiction exposes the many levels on which science fiction engages the ideas of the ancient world, from minute matters of language and structure to the larger thematic and philosophical concerns.