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Some remarks upon a pamphlet, entitl’d, A letter to the seven lords of the committee, appointed to examine Gregg. By the author of the Examiner
No full textFear of fiction: the authorial response to realism in selected works by Swift, Defoe, and Richardson
No full textIf Mrs. Whitehouse produced a pornographic play, it would arouse enormous interest, mainly because of Mrs. Whitehouse’s well known views on pornography. It is an ancient fact of English Literature that two of the best known pioneers of the English realistic novel, Daniel Defoe and Samuel Richardson, were Puritans. And there is an almost equally ancient critical tradition which traces the easy path of Puritan literature, in combination with other cultural forces, towards the production of realistic fiction. The central argument of this thesis is that there was no such easy path. Puritan autobiography was unrealistic in its very nature, while Puritan feeling towards fiction was hostile, with realistic, or verisimilar fiction provoking most hostility because the most deceitful. Thus the writing of a realistic novel was a radical departure for the Puritan, and one that was fraught with tension. It is this tension, or fear of fiction, and its effects on work of the two Puritan novelists, and that odd Anglican Jonathan Swift, that is the subject of this thesis. Swift joins Defoe and Richardson as an author with a special relationship with Defoe, and himself closer to a fearful anti- mimetic "tradition" than the comic tradition in which he is usually placed alongside Fielding and Sterne. Selected works of the three authors reveal their struggle with the intense problems that realism created for them, and their eventual 'solutions'. Hence by the time that Dr. Johnson made his famous critical statement against the fearful potential of realism in his fourth Rambler [31 March 1750), he was actually formalising material that had been well examined in the fiction under discussion, rather than beating an original critical path in response to Fielding's supposedly 'new' verisimilar form
To what extent is Lemuel Gulliver in Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift a reflection of the writer with regard to political and religious views, and attitudes toward women and the concept of family?
No full textThis extended essay is an examination of the extent to which the protagonist Lemuel Gulliver in Gulliver’s Travels is a reflection of Jonathan Swift. It involves the exploration of this research question in terms of politics, religion, attitude to women and family; with references to this piece of literature and some secondary resources when necessary. The quotations from published literary criticism are either refuted by examples from the novel or supported in the light of evidence from the novel. Other secondary resources include Swift’s two other prose works, The Modest Proposal and A Letter to a Very Young Lady on Her Marriage, which are referred to briefly for clarification of the evidence. The purpose of this study is to analyse in what ways and to what extent the protagonist is an author-surrogate in the abovementioned ways.
This essay is comprised of two sections, namely “politics and religion” and “women and family”, each focusing on a particular aspect of the investigation. In the first section, Swift’s political and religious standpoint is discussed extensively in order to correctly evaluate Gulliver’s paradigm. By making connections between the beliefs of the author and those of Gulliver, the relation between the two is established to support the claim of this essay. In the second section, the female figures in the novel and Gulliver’s perception of them are inspected. The plot is also taken into consideration in this part of the inquiry although the central focus is on the persona.
In the conclusion, it is validated that Gulliver is a reflection of Jonathan Swift with regard to political and religious vision, and attitude towards women and family, by juxtaposing and assembling the main elements of personification of Gulliver and Jonathan Swift’s personal ideas and experiences
Laughing Them Into Religion: A Comparison of the Contexts, Causes, and Effects of Jonathan Swift's A Tale of A Tub and C. S. Lewis's The Screwtape Letters
No full textJonathan Swift and C. S. Lewis had extraordinary similarities in their lives up to their respective writings of Tale of A Tub and The Screwtape Letters. Beyond the biographical parallels, there were great similarities in the religious, historical, and political contexts surrounding the two works, even though they were published 237 years apart. These facts have been ignored by scholars, yet more important than the similitude is what Swift and Lewis did differently in spite of it. These differences represent deliberate choices each author made and provide greater insights about them and these seminal works. Both of these brilliant men became convinced that their societies needed a rebirth of spirituality and chose highly creative religious satire to convey their respective messages and “laugh us into religion.”Master of Arts (MA)Englis
Swift
No full textVariant Date: 1973.Medium: Etching.Print Image Size: 14 7/8 x 13 7/8 inches.Print Edition: 40 (with 5 artist's proofs).Alternate Medium: Color etching and aquatint.Ink(s): brown.Support: Rives BFK paper.Portrait of eighteenth-century novelist and political pamphleteer Johnathan Swift, seated at a table. Text around the author's head reads "The good dean Swift." A later woodcut of the author [CMA 2005.015.024.004] was included in the Seven Poets portfolio
Gulliver's travels : A tale of a tub, Battle of the books, etc / by Jonathan Swift; edited with introduction and notes by William Alfred Eddy ...
No full textGULLIVER'S TRAVELS : A TALE OF A TUB, BATTLE OF THE BOOKS, ETC / BY JONATHAN SWIFT; EDITED WITH INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY WILLIAM ALFRED EDDY ...
Swift / by Jonathan Swift (-)
Gulliver's travels : A tale of a tub, Battle of the books, etc / by Jonathan Swift; edited with introduction and notes by William Alfred Eddy ... (I) (1)
Cover (1)
Title page (2)
Titelseite (4)
Contents (6)
Introduction (7)
A Letter From Captain Gulliver To His Cousin Sympson (20)
The Publisher To The Reader (23)
Contents (24)
Travels Into Several Remote Nations ... Part I. (26)
Travels. Part I. A Voyage To Lilliput (27)
Travels Into Several Remote Nations ... Part II. (65)
Part II. A Voyage To Brobdingnag (66)
Travels Into Several Remote Nations ... Part III. (107)
Part III. A Voyage To Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubbdubdrib, ... (108)
Travels Into Several Remote Nations ... Part IV. (149)
Part IV. A Voyage To The Country Of The Houyhnhnms (150)
A Tale Of A Tube (197)
Introduction (198)
Analytical Table (206)
An Apology (212)
Postscript (219)
John Lord Somers (220)
The Bookseller To The Reader / The Epistle ... Prince Posterity (222)
The Preface (226)
A Tale Of A Tube (231)
The History Of Martin (290)
A Full And True Account Of The Battle Fought Last Friday ... (295)
Introduction (296)
The Bookseller To The Reader (298)
The Preface Of The Author / The Battle Of The Books (299)
A Discourse Concerning The Mechanical Operation Of The Spirit (315)
The Bookseller's Advertisment / Mechanical Operation Of The Spirit (316)
Notes (329
OpenStack Swift installation and usage
No full textKvalifikācijas darbs “OpenStack Swift uzstādīšana un lietošana” veltīts tam, lai izpētītu Swift glabātuvi. Savā darbā autors iepazīstina lasītāju ar OpenStack sistēmu, īpašu uzmanību pievēršot Swift komponentam. Dotā darba mērķis ir iepazīt OpenStack Swift, ieviest to testa vidē un parādīt kā tas lietojams. Darba gaitā autors parāda, kā uzstādīt Swift uz virtuālās mašīnas testēšanas vidē, tāpat kā izmantot objektu glabātuvi un pārvaldīt to caur komandas rindu bez grafiskās saskarnes.Qualification work “OpenStack Swift installation and usage” is a research work on the object storage Swift. In this work autor introduces the OpenStack system and gives special attention to the Swift component. The purpose of this work is to get to know OpenStack Swift, deploy it in a test environment and show how to use it. During the work author shows how to install Swift on a virtual machine in a test environment, use the object storage and manage it through a command line without a graphical interface
Managing the effects of tax expenditures on the national budget
No full textTax expenditures, in the form of tax provisions, are government expenditures. They are conceptually and functionally distinct from those tax provisions whose purpose is to raise revenue. Tax expenditure programs are comparable to entitlement programs. Therefore, tax expenditures must be analyzed in spending terms and integrated into the budgetary process to ensure fiscal accountability. In addition, tax expenditures must be audited for performance and the information must be published (with comprehensive analysis) to ensure fiscal transparency. The author analyzes the concept and definition, size, and effects of tax expenditures, as well as the fiscal accountability and transparency of tax expenditure spending. In short, tax expenditures affect (1) the budget balance,(2) budget prioritization in allocation, (3) the effectiveness and efficiency of fiscal resources, and (4) the scope for abuse by taxpayers, government officials and legislators. While reviewing the current practices in tax expenditures against the requirements of fiscal accountability and transparency, she finds that this fiscal area must be strengthened. The author sketches four building blocks to strengthen tax expenditures toward fiscal accountability and transparency, based on the literature developed by Surry and McDaniel, the practices from industrial and developing countries, the Campos and Pradhan fiscal accountability model, and the International Monetary Fund's fiscal transparency code. The author argues that normative/benchmark tax structure, a revenue-raising component of the tax system, should be formalized. The normative/benchmark tax structure should be legally defined in the tax law and should be transparent. The tax receipts from this normative/benchmark tax structure should be quantified and published. Presently, many countries could publish imputed tax revenue from normative/benchmark tax structures because such data is available. Only if imputed tax revenue is published in the same way as the other budget components-tax revenue received, tax expenditures, direct expenditures, and fiscal balance-will a budget system be truly transparent in terms of revenue-raising activities and expenditure activities. In addition, when the tax revenue-raising activity is formalized, the inherent spending nature of tax expenditures is further exposed. Therefore, tax expenditures should be added to direct expenditures forming total government expenditures. Furthermore, the conventional concept of the size of government should be remedied by including both direct expenditures and tax expenditures.Public Sector Economics&Finance,Tax Law,Fiscal Adjustment,Public Sector Fiscal Adjustment,Economic Theory&Research
Topsy Turvy - Jonathan Swift on Human Nature, Reason, and Morality
No full textThis is the author accepted manuscript. The final version of the book is available from the publisher via the link in this record.No abstrac
Jonathan Swift in Context
No full textJonathan Swift remains the most important and influential satirist in the English language. The author of Gulliver\u27s Travels, A Modest Proposal, and A Tale of a Tub, in addition to vast numbers of political pamphlets, satirical verses, sermons, and other kinds of text, Swift is one of the most versatile writers in the literary canon. His writings were always closely intertwined with the English and Irish worlds in which he lived. The forty-four essays collected in Jonathan Swift in Context advance the latest research on Swift in a way that will engage undergraduate students while also remaining useful for scholars. Reflecting the best of current and ongoing scholarship, the contextual approach advanced by this volume will help to make Swift\u27s works even more powerful and resonant to modern audiences
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