Language and Creative IllusionExamines the creative process in writing, from the ideas and designs of composition to the business of fixing a text on paper. Two themes run throughout the text: one concerns the action of the mind in the creative process; the other concerns the editorial phase of composition. |
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Page 68
... Swift , who was in the habit of smuggling his text to the publisher and thereafter keeping his distance , with the result that the textual history of Gulliver's Travels is obscure and confused.3 We know that Swift denounced Motte for ...
... Swift , who was in the habit of smuggling his text to the publisher and thereafter keeping his distance , with the result that the textual history of Gulliver's Travels is obscure and confused.3 We know that Swift denounced Motte for ...
Page 81
... Swift ? No one needs to be reminded that Gulliver's travels obliquely record Swift's travails , his disgust with the inescapable flesh , his disappointment with a race that , given the chance to behave well , will commonly choose to ...
... Swift ? No one needs to be reminded that Gulliver's travels obliquely record Swift's travails , his disgust with the inescapable flesh , his disappointment with a race that , given the chance to behave well , will commonly choose to ...
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... Swift ; Gulliver's Travels and Selected Writings in Prose and Verse ( Swift 1944 ) . Hayward , coming out strongly for Faulkner , says : ' It is now known that Swift , though originally antagonistic to Faulkner's proposal ( to print the ...
... Swift ; Gulliver's Travels and Selected Writings in Prose and Verse ( Swift 1944 ) . Hayward , coming out strongly for Faulkner , says : ' It is now known that Swift , though originally antagonistic to Faulkner's proposal ( to print the ...
Contents
ON WRITING FOR READINGS SAKE | 15 |
SPEECH IN WRITING | 28 |
LUDUS LITTERARIUS OR GAMES WRITERS | 43 |
Copyright | |
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