Premium Content Saying "the Thing which was not": Consciously Constructed Confusion in Gulliver's Travels
By Nathaniel Popper - February 19, 2002
"But the chief end I propose to my self in all my labors is to vex the world"
Jonathan Swift
In most ironic works there are two voices. Ellen Winner and Howard Gardner explain that in irony, "what the speaker says is intentionally at odds with the way the speaker knows the world to be" (428). The use of the word Œspeaker' twice in this sentence…
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