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ISBN-13
9780521024778
Book Title
Swift's Parody
ISBN
9780521024778

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10
0521024773
ISBN-13
9780521024778
eBay Product ID (ePID)
50239108

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
236 Pages
Publication Name
Swift's Parody
Language
English
Publication Year
2006
Subject
Humor, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism, Literary Collections
Author
Robert Phiddian
Series
Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

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0.6 in
Item Weight
13 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
20
Reviews
'Robert Phiddian's ferociously intelligent book … is based on a strenuous, witty, and good-tempered engagement with a very wide range not only of primary but also of secondary writings.' The Review of English Studies, "The historical and literary contexts of Swift's early writing are freshly and expertly delineated, and Phiddian has a shrewd eye for illuminating parallel passages in parodic or quasi-parodic relationship." Norman Vance, Times Literary Supplement, 'Robert Phiddian¿s ferociously intelligent book ¿ is based on a strenuous, witty, and good-tempered engagement with a very wide range not only of primary but also of secondary writings.¿ The Review of English Studies, 'Robert Phiddian's ferociously intelligent book … is based on a strenuous, witty, and good-tempered engagement with a very wide range not only of primary but also of secondary writings.'The Review of English Studies, "We agree that there is something determinate about the textual conditions of Swift's early prose works that demands analysis....[Phiddian's] attempt to do so is elegant, inventive, and well informed." Eighteenth Century Fiction
Series Volume Number
Series Number 26
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
828.4/08
Table Of Content
Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Theoretical orientations; 2. Restoration enterprises and their rhetorics; 3. Parody and play of stigma in pamphlet warfare; 4. The problem of anarchic parody: An Argument against Abolishing Christianity; 5. Authority and author: the disappearing centre in Swiftian parody; 6. Entrance to A Tale of a Tub; 7. A Tale of a Tub as an orphaned text; 8. A Tale of a Tub as Swift's own illegitimate issue; Conclusion: Parodic disguise and the negotiability of A Tale of a Tub; Select bibliography; Index.
Synopsis
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 Phiddian follows the constructions and deconstructions of textual authority through the texts on cultural-historical, biographical, and literary-theoretical levels. The historical interest lies in the occasions of the parodies: in their relations with the texts and discourses which they quote and distort, and in the way this process reflects on the generation of cultural authority in late Stuart England. The biographical interest lies in a new way of viewing Swift's early career as a potentially Whiggish intellectual. The theoretical and interpretative interest lies in tracing the play of language and irony through parody., Parody has not received the attention it deserves as the major structural element of Jonathan Swift's prose. Robert Phiddian explores the parody in Swift's early texts, especially A Tale of a Tub, and throws new light both on the theory of parody and on developments in British culture in the eighteenth century.
LC Classification Number
PR3728.P3 P45 1995

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