Swift: Gulliver's TravelsCambridge University Press, 1993 M07 30 - 110 páginas This new critical introduction to Gulliver's Travels provides a fresh and impartial account of this world-famous satire. It presents Swift's work in its historical and literary context, and explores its allusions, its four-part structure, its narrative strategy and its prose style. A final chapter sketches the fictional aftermath of the Travels from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, and there is a guide to further reading. |
Contenido
Introduction | 1 |
Different kingdoms different parties | 3 |
Marvels and voyages | 11 |
A voyage to Lilliput | 22 |
A voyage to Brobdingnag | 37 |
A voyage to Laputa Balnibarbi Luggnag Glubbdubdrib and Japan | 48 |
A voyage to the country of the Houyhnhnms | 61 |
Concluding | 80 |
The fictional aftermath | 94 |
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Términos y frases comunes
admiration allusion animal attitude Balnibarbi Blefuscu Candide century certainly chapter character Christian Church civil comedy commonwealth conte philosophique contrast Cool Million Country court creatures critical Crusoe Dampier Dapple-Grey Defoe discourse Don Pedro Drapier's Letters Dublin eighteenth-century Emperor of Lilliput England English episode example experience fiction final Flimnap flying island further Gargantua and Pantagruel George Orwell giant Glumdalclitch Gulliver Gulliver's Travels happy horse Houyhnhnms human Hythloday Ireland ironic viewpoint irony James James II Jonathan Swift judgement kind King of Brobdingnag kingdom land Laputa Lemuel Lemuel Gulliver Lilliput and Blefuscu Lilliputians marvellous midget modern moral More's nature Orwell Party passage perhaps physical Pitkin political Pope publishes praise Purchas Rabelais Rasselas rational reader reason Redriff Reldresal religion Renaissance rôle satire ship society Sorrel Nag spider St John St Patrick's Cathedral strange Struldbruggs Swift London Tale Tory Utopia Voltaire Whig William Yahoos
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Transatlantic Engagements with the British Eighteenth Century Pamela J. Albert Vista de fragmentos - 2008 |