Download or read book A Modest Proposal and Other Satirical Works written by Jonathan Swift and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-02-29 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Treasury of five shorter works includes title piece plus The Battle of the Books, A Meditation Upon a Broom-Stick, A Discourse Concerning the Mechanical Operation of the Spirit and The Abolishing of Christianity in England.
Download or read book Greatest Works of Jonathan Swift s Satirical Works Gulliver s Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World by Jonathan Swift Gulliver s Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift written by Jonathan Swift and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2024-06-22 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book 1: Embark on a satirical journey with “Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Regions of the World by Jonathan Swift.” Swift's classic work takes readers to fantastical lands, using the adventures of Lemuel Gulliver to satirize human nature, society, and political systems. The narrative cleverly explores the absurdities of the world through Gulliver's encounters with peculiar civilizations. Book 2: Explore the depths of satire with “Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World by Jonathan Swift.” Swift's timeless tale continues to captivate readers as Gulliver encounters the miniature Lilliputians, the giants of Brobdingnag, and other peculiar societies. Through humor and wit, Swift provides a sharp commentary on human folly and societal absurdities. Book 3: Confront the power of satirical social critique in “A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift.” Swift's biting essay suggests a shockingly unconventional solution to the problem of overpopulation and poverty in Ireland. This piece remains a masterclass in dark satire, challenging readers to reflect on societal issues through a provocative and ironic lens.
Download or read book History and its relevance for understanding Jonathan Swift s satirical works written by Stefan Ruhnke and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2008-02-01 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2006 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald (Institut für Anglistik / Amerikanistik), course: 18th Century Satire, language: English, abstract: In his great and exceptionally well-researched book Jonathan Swift. Political Writer, James Allen Downie writes that “true satire condemns society by reference to an ideal” and that “such is Swift’s satire” . This statement by Downie not only serves as a good beginning for defining satire but also hints at an important aspect that should not be forgotten in any analysis of Swift’s satirical works. Swift, as any satirist in fact, needed and used certain occasions and persons in his times to trigger his satirical writing and refer to another ideal . Because of his “fixation with politics and his temperamental inability to ignore public affairs” , his writings, and especially his pamphlets and satires, reflect prominent issues of his times. For a satirical writer who wants to expose human flaws it is, of course, essential to use examples that he expects his audience to know. It was therefore necessary that Swift in his satires referred to prominent persons or recent developments and issues of his days to make sure that his satirical messages were understood by the English and Irish readers of the early 18th century. For this reason it is important to have at least a fundamental knowledge about political, but also cultural, religious and economic aspects of England’s and Ireland’s histories in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, the time in which Swift lived and by whose historical developments he was influenced. Historical knowledge about his times will certainly help to understand which contemporary problems and persons Swift thought worth satirizing and will also make it much clearer what Swift believed to be more general problems or flaws of humankind that he tried to expose using contemporary examples. Before I will point out historical references in two of Swift’s satirical works, Verses on the Death of Dr. Swift and A Modest Proposal, and show in which way historical knowledge can help to understand these satires, I want to take a look at some developments in England and Ireland in the late 17th and early 18th centuries that are essential to an understanding of Swift’s work.
Download or read book Works written by James Fenimore Cooper and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Choice Humorous and Satirical Works written by Francisco de Quevedo and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Choice Humorous and Satirical Works written by Francisco de Quevedo and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Modest Proposal and Other Satirical Works written by Jonathan Swift and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1996-02-02 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Treasury of five shorter works by the author of Gulliver's Travels offers ample evidence of the great satirist's inspired lampoonery. Title piece plus The Battle of the Books, A Meditation Upon a Broom-Stick, A Discourse Concerning the Mechanical Operation of the Spirit and The Abolishing of Christianity in England.
Download or read book The British Satirist Comprising the Best Satires of the Most Celebrated Poets from Pope to Byron Accompanied by Original Critical Notices of the Authors written by British Satirist and published by . This book was released on 1826 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Academy written by and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Academy a Weekly Review of Literature Learning Science and Art written by and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Poetical gazette; the official organ of the Poetry society and a review of poetical affairs, nos. 4-7 issued as supplements to the Academy, v. 79, Oct. 15, Nov. 5, Dec. 3 and 31, 1910
Download or read book Researching the Song A Lexicon written by Shirlee Emmons and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2005-12-22 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains more than 2,000 entries that supply information on the mythological, historical, geographical, and literary references contained in western art song. This lexicon helps singers and accompanists enhance their performances of songs, by providing them with the background on the many references embedded in this vast repertoire.
Download or read book The Academy and Literature written by Charles Edward Cutts Birch Appleton and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Holbein and His Time written by Alfred Friedrich Gottfried Albert Woltmann and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Ethics of the Aristocrats and Other Satirical Works written by Niẓām al-Dīn ʻUbayd Zākānī and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Obeyd-e Zakani, who died in 1372 is among the great poets of Iran but little known in the West. This selection of his work is the first to be translated into English. Obeyd was a remarkable satirist and social critic who looked upon his world of extravagant indulgence and corruption with the censorious eyes of a Juvenal, and portrayed it with the cynicism and wit of a Voltaire, and the hilarious grotesqueness of a Rabelais. He used scathing stories and sardonic maxims to paint a world full of deceit, greed, lust, sycophancy, and perversion, where old values and virtues were scorned and extremes of wealth and poverty, violence and bloodshed were the order of the day." -- from publishers.
Download or read book Theodoros Prodromos Miscellaneous Poems written by Nikos Zagklas and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-05-25 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In twelfth-century Byzantium, poetry played a key part in various contexts of textual production and consumption. One of the leading poets of this period was Theodoros Prodromos, whose surviving corpus comprises approximately 17,000 verses. Even though most of his poetry has been presented in modern critical editions, a group of his works has been overlooked by modern philologists and literary scholars alike. The selected corpus--conventionally designated as Miscellaneous Poems--consists of texts on various themes and in a wide range of genres, ranging from cycles of religious and secular epigrams to riddles, ethopoiiai, and works of a self-referential and essayistic nature. This book includes the first critical edition and study of these poems, accompanied by English translations and commentaries. Their study contributes to a more nuanced picture of Prodromos' intellectual profile, expanding his image as the 'poet laureate' of the Komnenian court and providing entirely new insights into his activity in the different settings of Constantinopolitan intellectual life. The book also sheds new light on the complex relationship between patronage and other aspects of literary activity and the circulation of the same text in different performative contexts.
Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of Popular Culture as Philosophy written by Dean A. Kowalski and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2024-04 with total page 2127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much philosophical work on pop culture apologises for its use; using popular culture is a necessary evil, something merely useful for reaching the masses with important philosophical arguments. But works of pop culture are important in their own right--they shape worldviews, inspire ideas, change minds. We wouldn't baulk at a book dedicated to examining the philosophy of The Great Gatsby or 1984--why aren't Star Trek and Superman fair game as well? After all, when produced, the former were considered pop culture just as much as the latter. This will be the first major reference work to right that wrong, gathering together entries on film, television, games, graphic novels and comedy, and officially recognizing the importance of the field. It will be the go-to resource for students and researchers in philosophy, culture, media and communications, English and history and will act as a springboard to introduce the reader to the other key literature in the field.
Download or read book The Battle of the Books and other Short Pieces written by Jonathan Swift and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Battle of the Books and other Short Pieces" is a collection of works by the prominent British humorist Jonathan Swift. The book starts with an intelligent satirical story, "The Battle of Books," which represents the battle between the antique and classic historians. Another section contains the poems of Jonathan Swift, dedicated to his beloved, and some of his aphorisms.
