Swift and Satire

Ehrenpreis, Irvin

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“…Namely, Swift "writes the opposite of what he means, in a tone which indicates the real intention. But he can also be ironic about an irony" 18 . Ehrenpreis acknowledges that malleability has made Gulliver attractive for other writersʼ intertextual exercises: "Moderately successful, infused with the ordinary bourgeois ambitions, benevolent and hopeful toward man, boastful about his native land and about European civilization, he has an irresistible attraction for the readerʼs fantasies of identification.…”

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Swiftian Irony and the Romanian Novel

Mudure¹

2022

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This paper focuses on the use of Swiftian irony in two Romanian novels: Gulliver în ţara minciunilor [Gulliver in the Country of Lies] by Ion Eremia 1 and Călătorie în Capricia [A Journey to Capricia] by Mircea Opriţă 2 . The influence of the troubled political environment in Eastern Europe during the twentieth century informs the intertextual relation between these three novels. The intertextual analysis has two levels: the ironical use of the Swiftian travelogue by the two Romanian novelists and the (Swiftian) irony within the two novels authored by Ion Eremia and Mircea Opriţă. This intertextual relationship is also integrated within the international scholarship on Swiftian irony.The statement that Jonathan Swift is considered a master of irony is a common place in many literary histories or even literary textbooks. Still, the critical literature about Swift, the ironist, is not very rich. Eleanor Hutchens distinguishes irony "from other kinds of deceptive acts" 3 of literature. Basically, irony is "the sport of bringing about a conclusion by indicating its opposite" 4 , irony is an "understatement, which achieves emphasis by denying" 5 its rhetorical power. Irony 10 An unfortunate example of superficial scholarship about Swiftʼs irony and its connection with satire is Elena Ţarălungă Tamura, "Jonathan Swiftʼs Satire and Irony", The

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