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... question : To what extent , precisely , are the Canterbury Tales a work of satire ? From one point of view we might answer the question very easily , simply by running through the Tales collecting an exhibit of disengaged passages and ...
... question : To what extent , precisely , are the Canterbury Tales a work of satire ? From one point of view we might answer the question very easily , simply by running through the Tales collecting an exhibit of disengaged passages and ...
Page 32
... question that naturally arises in our minds as we read Chester- ton's remarks and consider the sort of ironic juxtapositions I sketched above , the first question that has to be answered , is whether all this irony is really there . Are ...
... question that naturally arises in our minds as we read Chester- ton's remarks and consider the sort of ironic juxtapositions I sketched above , the first question that has to be answered , is whether all this irony is really there . Are ...
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... question is probably yes - and irrelevant . We do not have the finished work , and because we do not , the pattern ... questions . But his awareness of the grain of truth or of humanity in conflicting points of view did not make him ...
... question is probably yes - and irrelevant . We do not have the finished work , and because we do not , the pattern ... questions . But his awareness of the grain of truth or of humanity in conflicting points of view did not make him ...
Contents
A Book of Satires | 1 |
The Satiric Pattern of The Canterbury Tales | 17 |
The Lighter Side of Swift | 35 |
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