Satiric Allegory: Mirror of ManConcentrating on the allegorical aspects of satiric allegory, Leyburn discusses in detail such works as Gulliver's Travels and Butler's victorian satire Erewhon. |
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... nature ; allegory , with the beautiful and exalted . Satire looks down ; allegory looks up . To put them together is , in the popular opinion , to achieve a sort of squint . A typical statement of the supposed opposition asserts : " The ...
... nature ; allegory , with the beautiful and exalted . Satire looks down ; allegory looks up . To put them together is , in the popular opinion , to achieve a sort of squint . A typical statement of the supposed opposition asserts : " The ...
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... nature with which he points the moral of the seeming story . Since they are deliberately generalized , they compel attention beyond the action that has just been described . So the reader looks , as they suggest , at common human nature ...
... nature with which he points the moral of the seeming story . Since they are deliberately generalized , they compel attention beyond the action that has just been described . So the reader looks , as they suggest , at common human nature ...
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... Nature , by rendring them greater or lesse then they really are ( which is cal'd Hyperbole ) or by putting them into some other condition then Nature ever did . . . But when it imploys those things which it borrows of Falshood , to the ...
... Nature , by rendring them greater or lesse then they really are ( which is cal'd Hyperbole ) or by putting them into some other condition then Nature ever did . . . But when it imploys those things which it borrows of Falshood , to the ...
Contents
ALLEGORIES CONTROLLED BY PLOT | 15 |
ALLEGORIES OF MOCK HEROES | 34 |
ANIMAL STORIES | 57 |
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