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Read skeptically

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- Most writing has malign motivations - That is why you gotta read Swift's work behind face value - Swift writes skeptically - Swift can't be trusted himself

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A Modest Proposal

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- Economistic language of rationality, calculation, numbers - Butt of joke: persons of quality, landlords, powerful, wealthy (the child eaters) - Humor in gap between what he is saying and message he is conveying - Language communicates message and also hides it

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Irony

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- Work not meant to be read at face value - Sincerity should be doubted - Gap between what is there in the words and what is actually meant - Read against grain; against itself

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Swift uses words to ridicule words and issues themselves

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To prove that language can be abusive and misleading

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Parody

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- Imitation - Looks like the thing it makes fun of

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Major themes of Swift's work

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- Judging truth and falsehood in writing - Real writing vs scribbling - Filter with church + politics in mind

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On Poetry

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- Identifies the commercial project of making a best-seller - Money as motivation - Commercial print culture can never be trusted because it's goal is to appeal/sell

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Satire

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- Best forms are used to attack, mock, and expose those in power - Serious critique in a funny way - Pretend to be something you're not to assert a truth - No necessity to imitate

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Influences on Swift's writing

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- Torn between Whigs and Tories - Connections to authoritative figures = peak of his career - Writing connected to power - Anglican Church of Ireland

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