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A Modest Proposal in the Context of Swift's Irish Tracts - A Relevance-Theoretic Study (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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A Modest Proposal in the Context of Swift's Irish Tracts - A Relevance-Theoretic Study (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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Swift's A Modest Proposal has always aroused the interest not just
of literary critics, but also of linguists and pragmatists. Within
the latter approaches, the study of irony, and more concretely, the
intentions and attitudes that must have guided the production of
such an intricate work, have always been paramount. However, it
seems that within pragmatics the analysis has been restricted so
far to the 1729 work itself. In the present author's view, it is
interesting to contextualise this masterpiece of irony and satire
within Swift's wider writing on Ireland, an approach that remains
to be carried out. Accordingly, this work sets out to analyse a
selection of Swift's Irish Tracts, with a view to tracing the
evolution within Swift's literary production of his views and
attitudes towards the situation of his homeland. Although different
pragmatic approaches are applied, the emphasis is laid upon the
contributions that the relevance-theoretical framework and its
studies on irony may bring to the understanding of this particular
Tract. The works selected are meant to cover and also be
representative of the main phases currently distinguished within
Swift's writing on the "Irish Question". It is therefore hoped that
a deeper analysis of the former works by Swift on this topic will
provide new insights for a better understanding of A Modest
Proposal.
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