Lloyd Davis (essay date May 1992)
SOURCE: Davis, Lloyd. “Reading Irony: Dialogism in A Modest Proposal.” Journal of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Association 77 (May 1992): 32-55.
[In the following essay, Davis discusses dialogism and its role in the ironic portrayal of Ireland's sociopolitical situation in A Modest Proposal.]
That Swift's A Modest Proposal is firmly placed in two canons of English, those of composition and literature, suggests that it fulfils certain values emphasized across the...
Source: Literary Criticism (1400-1800), ©2004 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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