ENGL 104W Lecture Notes - Lecture 33: A Modest Proposal, James Francis Edward Stuart, Jonathan Swift
16 Sep 2016
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Primary text vs. secondary text: these = additional sources used to help understand a modest proposal . Also note how these sources have been included through run-on and block quotations. Researching in the essay: the mask in swift"s a modest proposal . Jonathan swift = well-deserved reputation as a deadly ironist: gulliver"s travels = best known example of his skill. The modest proposal = bizarre & cruelly ludicrous. Swift"s style = alerts us to the possibility that his formal voice w/its claims to authority = sometimes unreliable: clear satiric note and subject matter = make it more difficult to read than our earlier essays. Presents a real challenge to prove & support a reading. E. g. calls wives breeders which is insulting and ugly, but the general tone is and progressive s. t. we don"t even hear the dissonance: w/ the satiric edge, the point is hard to get.
