| 紀錄類型: |
書目-電子資源
: 單行本
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| 副題名: |
battlegrounds of reading and writing |
| 作者: |
AtkinsG. Douglas, 1943- |
| 出版地: |
[Basingstoke] |
| 出版者: |
Palgrave Macmillan; |
| 出版年: |
2012 |
| 面頁冊數: |
1 online resource. |
| 標題: |
Modernism (Literature) - |
| 標題: |
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - |
| 標題: |
Satire, English - History and criticism. - |
| 標題: |
Swift - Jonathan - History and criticism. - |
| 電子資源: |
http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9781137311047 |
| 附註: |
Description based on print version record. |
| 摘要註: |
More than three centuries since their first publication, Jonathan Swift's "A Tale of a Tub", 'The Battle of the Books,' 'The Mechanical Operation of the Spirit,' and "An Argument against Abolishing Christianity" remain striking, prescient, and still-relevant challenges to Modern commitments to inwardness, reflection, and spiritualism. In this lively and engaging study - grounded in the intellectual and historical currents of Swift's time, with an eye on the implications for the present day - G. Douglas Atkins brings forty-plus years of scholarly and critical experience to bear on some of the greatest satires ever written. The study reveals new contexts for understanding Swift's satires, including post-Reformation reading practices and the development of the modern personal essay. This book revisits, from fresh perspectives, the late seventeenth-century version of the perennial warfare between Ancients and Moderns, then often instanced as 'the battle of the books.'. |
| ISBN: |
9781137311047electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
1137311045electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
1137311622 |
| ISBN: |
9781137311627 |
| ISBN: |
9781283893404 |
| ISBN: |
1283893401 |
| 內容註: |
Introduction: The Spider and the Bee: Ancients vs. Moderns and the Battle of the Books 1. The World Swift Saw Aborning 2. The Priesthood of All Readers:'This good had full as bad a Consequence' 3. Swift and the Modern Personal Essay: "A Tale of a Tub" and 'A Modest Proposal' 4. Tripping and Troping , Inside and Out:Surface, Depth, and the 'Converting Imagination' in "A Tale of a Tub" 5. 'The Physical Act of Worship, not the Mental Act of Belief or Assent': Reading "An Argument against Abolishing Christianity". |