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With much of the intellectual discourse of the last several decades concerned with reconsiderations of modernity, how do we read the works of Jonathan Swift, who ridiculed the modern even as it was taking shape? The author approaches the question of modernity in Swift by way of a theory of satire from Aristotle via Swift (and Bakhtin) that eschews modern notions that satire is meant to reform and correct. Linking satire to Nemesis, the goddess of righteous vengeance, Swift as Nemesis develops new readings of Swift s major satires. From his first published work, Swift associates the modern with the new science and represents modernity as a pernicious strain of narcissism that devalues humanistic discourse. In his early satires, he compiles a profane history of the modern in which the new philosophy is an extension of the methodology of alchemists, the debased Roman Catholic Church, and the various Puritan sects. This history culminates in A Tale of a Tub with an assault on the intellectual basis of that most formidable of all modern works, Newton s Principia.

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Book category Knihy po anglicky Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Swift as Nemesis
• Subtitle: Modernity and Its Satirist
• Author: Frank Boyle
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 264
• EAN: 9780804734363
• ISBN: 0804734364
• ID: 04716882
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Weight: 454 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 140 × 22 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. July 2000

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