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Swiftian may
refer to: Anglo-Irish
satirist and
essayist Jonathan Swift or his works.
American singer-songwriter
Taylor Swift or her works. This disambiguation...
- of The
Grapes of Wrath, the
tender humor of
Cannery Row, the "terrible"
Swiftian humor of The
Wayward Bus, and (instead)
consisting of "a
sophomoric humor...
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murder them.
Roger Ebert deemed the film "a
brave effort in a
timid time, a
Swiftian attempt to slap us all in the face and get us to
admit that our own freedoms...
- in A
Modest Proposal, has led to such
satire being subsequently termed "
Swiftian".
Swift is
remembered for
works such as A Tale of a Tub (1704), An Argument...
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writing in
their treatment of
social issues.
Continuing the
tradition of
Swiftian journalistic satire,
Sidney Godolphin Osborne (1808–1889) was the most...
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Samuel Butler's
Erewhon (1872) use a
similar plot as a
vehicle for
Swiftian social satire rather than
romantic adventure.
Other early examples are...
- 1940,
Julian Evans described Gébler as an "overlooked novelist" with a "
Swiftian understanding of the world's
secret machinations". In 2000 he published...
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Beatty review – a
whirlwind satire about racial identity". The Guardian. "A
Swiftian hero", The Economist,
October 29, 2016.
Article withdrawn for similarities...
- most
notably Nineteen Eighty-Four, as both have been
considered works of
Swiftian satire. Furthermore,
these two
prominent works seem to
suggest Orwell's...
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eliminate men,
including by men
murdering each other. Rich
thought it
might be
Swiftian satire and that men's
retraining was an
alternative in the Manifesto. Castro...
