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Page 107
... Tale's satiric object is no timely enemy but rather timeless human vice ; the book reveals no uncorrupted values . The reader feels that the Tale satirizes every- thing and at the same time manages to create the satiric object en ...
... Tale's satiric object is no timely enemy but rather timeless human vice ; the book reveals no uncorrupted values . The reader feels that the Tale satirizes every- thing and at the same time manages to create the satiric object en ...
Page 111
... Tale itself becomes nihilistic . They conclude that Swift intentionally made the Tale a model of madness ; it contains no real system of positive values , because it fully embodies everything Swift despised . Of course some surgery then ...
... Tale itself becomes nihilistic . They conclude that Swift intentionally made the Tale a model of madness ; it contains no real system of positive values , because it fully embodies everything Swift despised . Of course some surgery then ...
Page 115
... Tale of a Tub will not permit them . We cannot schematize or stabilize the perceptual theory in Swift's book of the body , his " Physico - logical Scheme of Oratorial Receptacles or Machines " ( T , 61 ) : there are no relative degrees ...
... Tale of a Tub will not permit them . We cannot schematize or stabilize the perceptual theory in Swift's book of the body , his " Physico - logical Scheme of Oratorial Receptacles or Machines " ( T , 61 ) : there are no relative degrees ...
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the circle as figural space | 25 |
a fourfold | 129 |
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