L'edizione Penguin Classics del ferocemente satirico A Modest Proposal and Other Writings di Jonathan Swift è curata con un'introduzione e note di Carol Fabricant. Alleviare la povertà in Irlanda mangiando i figli dei poveri era la ''soluzione'' satirica suggerita da Jonathan Swift nel suo saggio ''A Modest Proposal'' (1729). Qui Swift scatena tutta la potenza del suo armamentario ironico e del suo arguzia corrosiva, individuando i suoi bersagli - la classe dirigente britannica e gli avidi proprietari terrieri, e gli irlandesi brutalizzati, complici della loro stessa oppressione - con mortale precisione. Il suo magistrale saggio è accompagnato da una generosa selezione di opere in prosa, tra cui opuscoli che attaccano il dominio britannico nella sua nativa Irlanda, saggi periodici che criticano le nuove classi capitaliste e militari, un diario che descrive in dettaglio le sue attività politiche a Londra, un affettuoso tributo alla sua amata ''Stella'' dopo la sua morte e pezzi su argomenti così diversi come le assurdità dell'astrologia, le gioie dei giochi di parole e le regole comiche per i servi. Ingegnoso e anticonformista, Swift si rivela qui come uno dei più grandi satirici in lingua inglese. Nella sua introduzione a questa nuova edizione, Carol Fabricant discute la vita e i tempi turbolenti di Swift, le sue opinioni politiche e i suoi poteri come scrittore di complessa ironia e intricati giochi di parole. Questo volume include anche una cronologia, ulteriori letture, un glossario, note e un dizionario biografico. Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) nacque a Dublino. Mandato alla Kilkenny Grammar School quando aveva sei anni, Swift in seguito frequentò il Trinity College di Dublino, dove conseguì la laurea triennale nel 1686. È considerato il più importante satirico in prosa in lingua inglese, che derivava dalla sua critica alle politiche coloniali repressive della Gran Bretagna in Irlanda. Tra le opere più note di Swift ci sono il suo capolavoro ironico, ''Una modesta proposta'' (1729), e il suo romanzo, I viaggi di Gulliver (1726). Se ti è piaciuto ''Una modesta proposta'', potresti apprezzare anche ''The Rape of the Lock and Other Major Writings'' di Alexander Pope, anch'esso disponibile presso Penguin Classics.
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Jonathan Swift was born in Dublin on 30 November 1667, some months after his father's death. He was sent to Kilkenny Grammar School when he was six and later attended Trinity College, Dublin, where he received his BA degree in 1686. He is considered the foremost prose satirist in the English language, which stemmed from his criticism of Britain's repressive colonial policies in Ireland. Among Swift's best known works is his ironic masterpiece, 'A Modest Proposal' (1729), and his novel, Gulliver's Travels (1726). Swift died on 19 October 1745.
Carole Fabricant is Professor of English at the University of California, Riverside. She is the author of Swift's Landscape and has published widely on a number of eighteenth-century writers, including Alexander Pope, Edmund Burke and Bishop Berkeley, as well as on topics such as landscape gardening, travel, tourism and questions of colonialism and race in the eighteenth-centruy, especially as they relate to British-Irish relations during the period.
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Paperback. Condizione: New. The Penguin Classics edition of Jonathan Swift's savagely satirical A Modest Proposal and Other Writings is edited with an introduction and notes by Carol Fabricant.To ease poverty in Ireland by eating the children of the poor was the satirical 'solution' suggested by Jonathan Swift in his essay 'A Modest Proposal' (1729). Here Swift unleashes the full power of his ironic armoury and corrosive wit, finding his targets - the British ruling class and avaricious landlords, and the brutalized Irish, complicit in their own oppression - with deadly precision. His masterly essay is accompanied by a generous selection of prose works, among them pamphlets attacking British rule in his native Ireland, periodical essays critiquing the new capitalist and military classes, a journal detailing his political activities in London, a loving tribute to his beloved 'Stella' after her death and pieces on such diverse subjects as the absurdities of astrology, the joys of punning and comical rules for servants. Ingenious and unconventional, Swift is revealed here as one of the greatest satirists in the English language.In her introduction to this new edition, Carol Fabricant discusses Swift's life and turbulent times, his political views and his powers as a writer of complex irony and intricate word play. This volume also includes a chronology, further reading, a glossary, notes and a biographical dictionary.Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) was born in Dublin. Sent to Kilkenny Grammar School when he was six, Swift later attended Trinity College, Dublin, where he received his BA degree in 1686. He is considered the foremost prose satirist in the English language, which stemmed from his criticism of Britain's repressive colonial policies in Ireland. Among Swift's best known works are his ironic masterpiece, 'A Modest Proposal' (1729), and his novel, Gulliver's Travels (1726).If you enjoyed A Modest Proposal, you might like Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock and Other Major Writings, also available in Penguin Classics. Codice articolo LU-9780140436426
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