1. Fair warning: I'm going to be dabbling in some literary theory. Feel free to ignore next few tweets if that's not your thing.
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11. It's supremely relevant to recognize, in reading Modest Proposal, that Swift was a satirist rather than a policy wonk.
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12. Equally important, as Hugh Kenner once noted, to know that Andy Warhol was artist, not someone trying to do Campbell Soup knockoffs.
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@HeerJeet Not sure about satire. I think if the satire is there, it's detectable. That's the problem with Borowitz, Daily Currant, etc. -
@huffakingit Worth looking up Kenner's "The Counterfeiters" where he argues the issue of satire (using Swift as example)
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@HeerJeet Controversy here seems to be more about the distinction in the critical parameters of journalism and literary criticism.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@HeerJeet That is, the explainer format appeals to a sense of authority is unsuited to literary criticism. -
@DavidHains Yeah, I think that's a key problem.
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