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Jonathan Swift and the Vested Word (Enduring Editions)
Deborah Baker Wyrick
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Description for Jonathan Swift and the Vested Word (Enduring Editions)
Paperback. Num Pages: frontispiece. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 386.
In Jonathan Swift and the Vested Word, Deborah Wyrick argues that modern Continental and American literary theory is tantalizingly applicable to Swiftian texts. Its applicability, she writes, stems from Swift's interest in and exploration of what are now though of as phenomenological, structuralist, poststructuralist, and new historicist concerns: how a life in language comes into being, how semiotic systems determine meaning, how texts open up their own systems to other texts and to multiple interpretations. Wyrick investigates Swift's confrontations with three theories of language current in his day, theories ... Read more
In Jonathan Swift and the Vested Word, Deborah Wyrick argues that modern Continental and American literary theory is tantalizingly applicable to Swiftian texts. Its applicability, she writes, stems from Swift's interest in and exploration of what are now though of as phenomenological, structuralist, poststructuralist, and new historicist concerns: how a life in language comes into being, how semiotic systems determine meaning, how texts open up their own systems to other texts and to multiple interpretations. Wyrick investigates Swift's confrontations with three theories of language current in his day, theories ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
386g
Number of Pages
270
Place of Publication
Chapel Hill, United States
ISBN
9780807857168
SKU
V9780807857168
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Reviews for Jonathan Swift and the Vested Word (Enduring Editions)
An original and provocative study of the uses and function of language in Swift's writings. In its synthesis of post-structuralist perspectives with more traditional critical approaches, Wyrick's book points to new ways of thinking and talking about Swift's canon.
Carole Fabricant
Carole Fabricant