Twentieth Century Interpretations of Gulliver's Travels
Author: Frank Brady
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Published: 1968
Total Pages: 136
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of critical essays and commentary on Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's travels.
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Author: Frank Brady
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Published: 1968
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of critical essays and commentary on Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's travels.
Author: Jonathan Swift
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Published: 1968
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780133715750
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book, part of a lengthy series, is a collection of essays that examine the structure and meanings in Gulliver's Travels.
Author: Eric S. Rabkin
Publisher: Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Oxford University Press
Published: 1983-09-29
Total Pages: 548
ISBN-13: 9780195032727
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents a chronological survey of this genre from the beginnings of modern science and technology to the present.
Author: Jonathan Swift
Publisher: Echo Library
Published: 2011-08-01
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9781603037228
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Daniel Cook
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2023-10-31
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 1108830196
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe definitive guide to Swift's controversial satirical masterpiece, Gulliver's Travels, demonstrating its complexity and enduring legacy.
Author: George Orwell
Publisher: Renard Press Ltd
Published: 2021-01-01
Total Pages: 30
ISBN-13: 1913724336
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGeorge Orwell set out ‘to make political writing into an art’, and to a wide extent this aim shaped the future of English literature – his descriptions of authoritarian regimes helped to form a new vocabulary that is fundamental to understanding totalitarianism. While 1984 and Animal Farm are amongst the most popular classic novels in the English language, this new series of Orwell’s essays seeks to bring a wider selection of his writing on politics and literature to a new readership. Politics vs. Literature, the fourth in the Orwell’s Essays series, is, at heart, a review of Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels. Having been given a copy of the book on his eighth birthday, Orwell knows it inside out, and thinks highly of it; it is ‘pessimistic’, though, he says – ‘it descends into political partisanship of a narrow kind,’ designed to ‘humiliate man by reminding him that he is weak and ridiculous.’ Using the book as an example of enjoying a book whose author one cannot stand, Orwell goes on to say that he considers Gulliver’s Travels a work of art, leaving the reader to reconsider the books on their own shelves. 'A writer who can – and must – be rediscovered with every age.' — Irish Times
Author: Ernest Lockridge
Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
Published: 1968
Total Pages: 140
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn a series of essays and reviews this American classic is analyzed.
Author: John Condon Murray
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 114
ISBN-13: 0595157564
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGulliver's Travels explores the human need to create order out of chaos through an internal system of knowledge that affirms the subjective self. In this study, I examine how Gulliver integrates elements of knowledge from the native and the host-societies into an operative system of self-knowledge. Gulliver's self-knowledge threatens the status quo within these societies by placing him at the solipsistic center of the narrative, orchestrating his observations to maintain the subjective self. If Gulliver was successfully indoctrinated in England, then why does he exhibit such an imperfect understanding of the complexities that define the principles which shaped Western society? Furthermore, if Gulliver is brainwashed by his hosts, then by what authority does he continually transgress the rules of law that govern their societies? Specifically, why does he knowingly commit acts of disobedience and heresy if he has been successfully indoctrinated into their social systems? My study concludes Gulliver's empirical search for an answer to the question Who am I? fails because he is unable to harmonize subjective truths within the objective world.
Author: Paul J. DeGategno
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Published: 2014-05-14
Total Pages: 481
ISBN-13: 1438108516
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides a comprehensive alphabetical reference to the life and work of Jonathan Swift.
Author: Gary Saul Morson
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9780810108110
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsing Dostoevsky's most radical experiment in literary form as a springboard, Gary Saul Morson examines a number of key topics in contemporary literary theory, including the nature of literary genres and their relation to interpretation. He convincingly argues that genre is not a property of texts alone but arises from the interaction between texts and readers. Observing that changing conventions of interpretation and classifciation may alter the perception of particular works, Morson considers a number of problematic texts that have been read according to two contradictory sets of conventions - "boundary works"--And a futher group of texts - "threshold works" such as Dostoevsky's Diary of a writer - that were evidently designed by their authors to exploit this kind of hermeneutic ambivalence. Morson explores the nature of the literary utopia and its parodic form, the anti-utopia, and, returning to Dostoevsky's Diary as his example, a third form which exists as a sort of open dialogue of utopia and anti-utopia