Saying "the Thing which was not": Consciously Constructed Confusion in Gulliver's Travels

"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 Oespeaker' twice in this sentence reveals a great deal about irony. One of the speakers …

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