Polite Conversation in Three Dialogues A Satirical Anatomy of Genteel Speech, Fashionable Society, and Eighteenth-Century Small Talk
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Taschenbuch
Herausgeber
George SaintsburyVerlag
Good PressSeitenzahl
76
Maße (L/B/H)
0,4/15,2/22,9 cm
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125 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-80-272-8437-5
Polite Conversation in Three Dialogues is Swift's brilliant anatomy of fashionable emptiness: a satirical compilation of clichés, social formulas, proverbs, and conversational evasions arranged as dramatic exchanges among genteel speakers. Published in 1738, the work belongs to the Augustan tradition of moral and linguistic satire, exposing how "politeness" can become a theatre of intellectual vacancy. Its style is deceptively plain, comic, and accumulative, turning ordinary small talk into a devastating critique of social pretension and verbal corruption. Jonathan Swift, Anglo-Irish clergyman, political pamphleteer, and master satirist, had long been preoccupied with the abuse of language and the follies of fashionable society. Best known for Gulliver's Travels and A Modest Proposal, he wrote from a position both inside and outside the polite world he mocked. His clerical office, political disappointments, and acute sensitivity to cant, vanity, and public hypocrisy all inform this late work's sharp-eyed compression of social absurdity. This book is recommended for readers interested in satire, sociolinguistics, eighteenth-century manners, or the comedy of everyday speech. It rewards those who enjoy wit with moral purpose: Swift makes trivial conversation reveal an entire culture's habits of thought.
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