Literature · Medieval & Early Modern Literature
A topic within Medieval & Early Modern Literature, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Literature.
2 works
Jonathan Swift
Sends one increasingly disillusioned traveller through four invented societies to argue that human institutions look absurd and vicious as soon as they are seen from outside their own assumptions.
about 7 hours to readlink checked 17 Sept 2026Laurence Sterne
A narrator who cannot finish telling his own life before it is over demonstrates that any life, faithfully rendered, will always outrun the linear form a novel is supposed to give it.
about 12 hours to readlink checked 17 Sept 2026