Swiftian Inspirations The Legacy Of Jonathan Swift From The Enlightenment To The Age Of Post Truth

Author : Jonathan McCreedy,M. Vesselin Budakov,Alexandra K. Glavanakova
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1527541762

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Swiftian Inspirations: the Legacy of Jonathan Swift from the Enlightenment to the Age of Post-Truth by Jonathan McCreedy,M. Vesselin Budakov,Alexandra K. Glavanakova Pdf

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 Gulliverâ (TM)s Travels, as well as allusions to Swiftian satire during the US Enlightenment and in post-racial America. The third part 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.

Author : Jonathan McCreedy
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-24
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781527546141

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Swiftian Inspirations by Jonathan McCreedy Pdf

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.

Author : Samira al-Khawaldeh
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527504653

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An Arab Perspective on Jonathan Swift by Samira al-Khawaldeh Pdf

How do young scholars from the Arab world interact with English literature? Is literature relevant to their life? Can it help shape their reality? Is this affiliation new, or is there a pattern? This book poses some answers to these questions and more; it is ideal for university students and young intellectuals who seek further insight into world literature and literary theory. As this book shows, strong and courageous voices from the past, voices that transcend time and space, like Swift’s, must remain alive in the departments of English and world literature in this wasteland of globalization - a world dominated by cold science, materialism, and conflict. There is need for Swift to haunt us, for his ghost to wake us to the truth. Anarchist, anti-colonialist, nay-sayer, champion of the oppressed and conscious of the plight of women, Swift is the ultimate “therapeutic ironist”; what more can a pen do?

Author : Jakub Lipski
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000409789

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Re-Reading the Eighteenth-Century Novel by Jakub Lipski Pdf

Re-Reading the Eighteenth-Century Novel adds to the dynamically developing subfield of reception studies within eighteenth-century studies. Lipski shows how secondary visual and literary texts live their own lives in new contexts, while being also attentive to the possible ways in which these new lives may tell us more about the source texts. To this end the book offers five case studies of how canonical novels of the eighteenth century by Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding and Laurence Sterne came to be interpreted by readers from different historical moments. Lipski prioritises responses that may seem non-standard or even disconnected from the original, appreciating difference as a gateway to unobvious territories, as well as expressing doubts regarding readings that verge on misinterpretative appropriation. The material encompasses textual and visual testimonies of reading, including book illustration, prints and drawings, personal documents, reviews, literary texts and literary criticism. The case studies are arranged into three sections: visual transvaluations, reception in Poland and critical afterlives, and are concluded by a discussion of the most recent socio-political uses and revisions of eighteenth-century fiction in the Age of Trump (2016–2020).

Author : Jakub Lipski,Joanna Maciulewicz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000388596

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Neo-Georgian Fiction by Jakub Lipski,Joanna Maciulewicz Pdf

This book contributes to the development of contemporary historical fiction studies by analysing neo-Georgian fiction, which, unlike neo-Victorian fiction, has so far received little critical attention. The essays included in this collection study the ways in which the selected twentieth- and twenty-first-century novels recreate the Georgian period in order to view its ideologies through the lens of such modern critical theories as performativity, post-colonialism, feminism or visual theories. They also demonstrate the rich repertoire of subgenres of neo-Georgian fiction, ranging from biographical fiction, epistolary novels to magical realism. The included studies of the diverse novelistic conventions used to re-contextualise the Georgian reality reflect the way we see its relevance and relation to the present and trace the indebtedness of the new forms of the contemporary novel to the traditional novelistic genres.

Author : Derek C. Maus,James J. Donahue
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781496850577

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Greater Atlanta by Derek C. Maus,James J. Donahue Pdf

Contributions by GerShun Avilez, Lola Boorman, Thomas Britt, John Brooks, Phillip James Martinez Cortes, Derek DiMatteo, Tikenya Foster-Singletary, Alexandra Glavanakova, Erica-Brittany Horhn, Matthias Klestil, Abigail Jinju Lee, Derek C. Maus, Danielle Fuentes Morgan, Derek Conrad Murray, Kinohi Nishikawa, Sarah O'Brien, Keyana Parks, and Emily Ruth Rutter The seventeen essays in Greater Atlanta: Black Satire after Obama collectively argue that in the years after the widespread hopefulness surrounding Barack Obama’s election as president waned, Black satire began to reveal a profound shift in US culture. Using the four seasons of the FX television show Atlanta (2016–22) as a springboard, the collection examines more than a dozen novels, films, and television shows that together reveal the ways in which Black satire has developed in response to contemporary cultural dynamics. Contributors reveal increased scorn toward self-proclaimed allies in the existential struggle still facing African Americans today. Having started its production within a few weeks of Donald Trump’s (in)famous escalator ride in 2015, Atlanta in many ways is the perfect commentary on the absurdities of the contemporary cultural moment. The series exemplifies a significant development in contemporary Black satire, which largely eschews expectations of reform and instead offers an exasperated self-affirmation that echoes the declaration that Black Lives Matter. Given anti-Black racism’s lengthy history, overt stimuli for outrage have predictably commanded African American satirists’ attention through the years. However, more recent works emphasize the willful ignorance underlying that history. As the volume shows, this has led to the exposure of performative allyship, virtue signaling, slacktivism, and other duplicitous forms of purported support as empty, oblivious gestures that ultimately harm African Americans as grievously as unconcealed bigotry.

Author : Jordan P. Richman
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781599423500

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Johnson's Quarrel with Swift: Johnson's Part in the Swiftian Tradition by Jordan P. Richman Pdf

Samuel Johnson included in his Lives of the Poets a "Life of Jonathan Swift." His friends, including his biographer, believed he had formed a prejudice against Swift's life and works. They were relieved to find that Johnson's biography of Swift was fair and judicious, indeed. This dissertation shows the parallels, as well as divergences, between the two writers in satire, political thought, and theological philosophy.

Author : David Ward
Publisher : London : Methuen, distributed by Harper & Row, Barnes & Noble Import Division, New York
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005317396

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Jonathan Swift by David Ward Pdf

Author : Mihaela P. Harper,Dimitar Kambourov
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501348112

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Bulgarian Literature as World Literature by Mihaela P. Harper,Dimitar Kambourov Pdf

Bulgarian Literature as World Literature examines key aspects and manifestations of 20th- and 21st-century Bulgarian literature by way of the global literary landscape. The first volume to bring together in English the perspectives of prominent writers, translators, and scholars of Bulgarian literature and culture, this long-overdue collection identifies correlations between national and world aesthetic ideologies and literary traditions. It situates Bulgarian literature within an array of contexts and foregrounds a complex interplay of changing internal and external forces. These forces shaped not only the first collaborative efforts at the turn of the 20th century to insert Bulgarian literature into the world's literary repository but also the work of contemporary Bulgarian diaspora authors. Mapping histories, geographies, economies, and genetics, the contributors assess the magnitudes and directions of such forces in order to articulate how a distinctly national, "minor" literature--produced for internal use and nearly invisible globally until the last decade--transforms into world literature today.

Author : Kathleen Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Authors, Irish
ISBN : STANFORD:36105002607807

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Jonathan Swift and the Age of Compromise by Kathleen Williams Pdf

The purpose of this study is to put forward an interpretation of Swift's work based entirely on the writings themselves and on their relation to ideas, attitudes, and literary methods current in his own day. It arises from the belief that one cause of the frequent misunderstanding of the major satires is that they have been considered in isolation from the political tracts, the letters, the sermons, the sets of maxims, and even in isolation from one another. It is perfectly possible, I believe, to interpret Gulliver's Travels, A Tale of a Tub, and indeed all Swift's work, satisfactorily, by following his guidance as a responsible satirist in each individual work, and this is what the last two chapters of this study set out to do. Swift's characteristic ways of thinking and of writing are intimately related to the conditions of his time. His ideas are, for the most part, traditional, those of his Christian classical heritage, but his ways of reaching them, holding to them, and expressing them in words are intensely individual -- individual and yet conditioned by the difficulties of an age in which the tradition to which he owed allegiance was under steady attack from various sides. - Preface.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Swift a Collection of Critical Essays by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Forster
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1022806394

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The Life of Jonathan Swift by John Forster Pdf

Discover the fascinating life of one of the greatest satirists in history. From his early days as an impoverished writer to his later years as a beloved dean, Jonathan Swift's story is one of triumph over adversity. In this engaging biography, you'll learn about Swift's relationships, political views, and literary legacy. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Irvin Ehrenpreis
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 1085 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000353396

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Swift: The Man, his Works, and the Age by Irvin Ehrenpreis Pdf

First published in 1983, Dean Swift is the concluding book in a series of three volumes providing a detailed exploration of the events of Swift’s life. The third volume follows Swift’s life and career from 1714 to 1745 and sets it against the public events of the age, paying close attention to political and economic change, ecclesiastical problems, social issues, and literary history. It traces Swift’s rise to becoming first citizen of Ireland and looks in detail at the composition, publication, and reception of Gulliver’s Travels, as well as many of Swift’s other works, both poetry and prose. It also explores Swift’s later years, his love affairs with Esther Johnson and Esther Vanhomrigh, his complicated friendships with Pope, Lord Bolingbroke, and Archbishop King, and his declining health. Dean Swift is a hugely detailed insight into Swift’s life from 1714 until his death and will be of interest to anyone wanting to find out more about his life and works.

Author : Nicholas Hudson,Aaron Santesso
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2008-10-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521879552

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Swift's Travels by Nicholas Hudson,Aaron Santesso Pdf

New essays on Swift and his impact on satire and satirists up to the present.

Author : Joseph McMinn
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780874130683

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Jonathan Swift and the Arts by Joseph McMinn Pdf

Swift is a shrewd and humorous observer of the changing artistic and cultural scene in both Ireland and England, and his views on these changes in public taste are an important, albeit neglected, part of his biography. His correspondence, especially his Journal to Stella, shows us someone very aware of the various arts and of their lively emergence from the enclosed world of the Puritan era. Many of Swift's friends and acquaintances were serious collectors of paintings, sculpture, coins, medals and Swift himself eventually enjoyed an interesting and revealing collection of artistic artifacts, as this study shows.