Swift, Stella, and Permanence

Paulson, Ronald

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“…21 If Stella is infirm and constantly changing, the body does not appear to be the most reliable way of anchoring her identity. Instead, Swift employs several other strategies in "Receipt."…”

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Cannibalism and Communion in Swift’s “Receipt to Restore Stella’s Youth”

Callander¹

2014

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This essay contends that, in his penultimate Stella poem, Jonathan Swift endorses the redemptive power of language and of Christian liturgy in order to imagine his relationship with Stella as symbiotic. Swift not only invokes the Eucharist as a solution to the poem’s thematics of cannibalism but also exploits two formal issues that resemble that same ritual: lyric address and the distance between metaphor and identity. By linking content and form and by recasting dependency and predation as mutuality, Swift transcends the material and economical thinking he perceives as morally bankrupt; in effect, he transforms cannibalism into communion.

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Section: A Receipt For Continuitymentioning

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Cannibalism and Communion in Swift’s “Receipt to Restore Stella’s Youth”

Callander¹

2014

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“…He recognised that in addition to a lack of business acumen, HELP 'really has no personnel who could be considered qualified social workers'. 83 He embraced a proposed reorganisation of the project, which included the creation of a board to oversee it. 84 Elsewhere, in a suggestion that echoed Moore's critique, Paulson mulled over the possibility that HELP might be transformed into a kind of 'Man's Town' compared to Father Flanagan's 'Boy's Town' in Nebraska.…”

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Refugees as Resources: A Post-War Experiment in European Refugee Relief

Ballinger

2024

Contemporary European History

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This article explores the Homeless European Land Program, an experiment in resettling foreign refugees in post-Second World War Sardinia undertaken by two idealistic Americans with the support of the Brethren Service Committee and the fledgling UNHCR. Focusing on individuals rejected for immigration, the initiative aimed to integrate these ‘hard core’ refugees by rendering them agents of development of a ‘backwards’ region of the Italian South and to overcome Italian reluctance to serve as a country of permanent resettlement for the displaced. The history of this project reveals the contradictory impulses of early Cold War refugee relief and humanitarianism: the competition between intergovernmental and voluntary agencies, of secular and spiritual enterprises, and of images of refugees as dependent and difficult to settle and yet capable of self-sufficiency. Many of the ideas piloted in Sardinia, notably the linking of self-sufficiency and development, later became prominent in the UNHCR's work in the Global South.

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A Checklist of Critical and Biographical Writings on Jonathan Swift, 1945–65

Lamont¹

1967

Fair Liberty Was All His Cry

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Swift, Stella, and Permanence

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Cannibalism and Communion in Swift’s “Receipt to Restore Stella’s Youth”

Cannibalism and Communion in Swift’s “Receipt to Restore Stella’s Youth”

Refugees as Resources: A Post-War Experiment in European Refugee Relief

A Checklist of Critical and Biographical Writings on Jonathan Swift, 1945–65

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