Swift's Parody
Edition: 1 edition
Series: Cambridge Studies in Eighteenth-Century English Literature and Thought
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: March 16, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9780521024778
Subjects: Literary studies: 16th to 18th centuries; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; British Isles; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism & Collections / Eastern European; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Swift, Jonathan, --1667-1745--Technique Swift; Swift, Jonathan,--1667-1745--Technique
First sentence: If one were looking for a theory of quotation to described the practice of Swiftian parody, it would be difficult to better this: We now know that a text is not a line of words releasing a single 'theological' meaning (the 'message' of the Author-God) but a multi-dimensional space in which a variety of writings, none of them original, blend and clash.