<i>The Masks of Jonathan Swift</i>. William Bragg Ewald, Jr.

Ehrenpreis, Irvin

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“…Beaumont, 1961;Price, 1953, Bullitt, 1966. Some explicitly approached the problem of his personae (particularly Ewald, 1954; a succinct summary of post-war analyses of the Swiftian persona can be found in Ehrenpreis, 1955). To some extent, this literature fed the 'persona-driven' readings of Swift of which Rawson complained (Rawson, 2017).…”

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Contemporary British satire and the problem of Jonathan Swift’s personae

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This essay brings the example of Jonathan Swift’s literary personae to bear on current trends in satirical culture. A number of recent commentators have written of a crisis in contemporary British satire. They invoke Horkheimer and Adorno’s theory that comedy supports power interests which it purportedly undermines. The present essay maintains that Swift in a sense confirms this theory, but also that he sets another, more exacting standard for satire. Swiftian satire is singular if not unique in that it is openly self-disabling: in its highest form it deploys a persona that exhausts the resources of contemporary and classical theory. In doing so, it confronts its audiences with a complex and engaged expression of political helplessness. But it also uses irony to tell the truth. The standard Swift sets contemporary satire is an exacting one: to deliver an unflinching and, if necessary, vindictive testimony against injustice.

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