Hello Learners,
This blog
includes presentation, thinking activity, material and quiz on “A Tale of a Tub”
by Johnathan Swift.
Jonathan
Swift's Tale of the Tub is a brilliant failure. It is a prose satire intended
as a defense of the Anglican church, but it was widely interpreted by
contemporary readers as an attack on all religion. At the time of writing it,
Swift was a junior Anglican clergyman hoping for substantial preferment in the
Church. The appearance of the Tale, and its assumed message, was a serious
obstacle to his promotion.
One of the
things that makes the Tale difficult to interpret for that the work attacks
multiple things of things at the same time: it's an allegory about religious
differences; it's a satire on pedantry and false scholarship; it's a parody of
the contemporary book trade; it has attached to it two further treatises, the
'Battle of the Books', and the 'Mechanical Operation of the Spirit'. This essay
will examine notions of authorship, intertextuality, originality, and the
relationship between parody and allegory, and try to determine how all these
components fit together.
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Here’s a
brief presentation on “A Tale of a Tub” discussed in the class. Go through the
presentation and reading material to complete the thinking task and quiz.
Thinking
Activity:-
H1.) How far do you think Digression is
necessary?
I 2.)Identify any one movie/web
series/song/poem/novel which talks about the sensitive topic like religion.
Write in brief about it and explain what kind questions are raised through that
work.
HHappy Learning!!!
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