Jonathan Swift and the Vested Word

by Deborah Baker Wyrick

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807857165
• ISBN13: 9780807857168
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"