Gulliver's Travels and Selected Writings in Prose and Verse
Author : Jonathan Swift
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Release : 1990
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Author : Jonathan Swift
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Release : 1990
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Author : Jonathan Swift
Publisher : Echo Library
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 17,10 MB
Release : 2011-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781603037228
Author : Jonathan Swift
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Page : 526 pages
File Size : 20,97 MB
Release : 1883
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Author : Jonathan Swift
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Page : 318 pages
File Size : 23,63 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Satire
ISBN : 9781582791814
Author : Jonathan Swift
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Page : 384 pages
File Size : 49,22 MB
Release : 1899
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Author : Jonathan Swift
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 453 pages
File Size : 15,56 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1586173952
Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift is one of the greatest satirical works ever written. Through the misadventures of Lemuel Gulliver, his hopelessly "modern" protagonist, Swift exposes many of the follies of the English Enlightenment, from its worship of science to its neglect of traditional philosophy and theology. In Swift's eighteenth century, as in our twenty-first, a war being fought between the "ancients"and the "moderns", between those rooted in the traditions of the West and those seeking to uproot tradition to make way for dangerous and ultimatcly destructive new ideas. Swift's satire on the threats posed by the Enlightenment and the embryonic spirit of secular fundamentalism makes Gulliver's Travels priceless reading for today's defenders of tradition. Yet Swift's subtlety has bemused many modern critics, with the lamentable of result that this classic of western civilization is often misread and misunderstood. This new critical edition, edited by Dutton kearney of Aquinas College in Nashville, contains detailed notes to the text, bringing it to life for today's reader, and a selection of tradition-oriented essays by some of the finest contemporay Swift scholars. The Ignatius Critical Editions Series represents a tradition-oriented approach to reading the Classics of world literature. While many modern critical editions have succumbed to the fads of modernism and post-modernism, this series concentrates on critical examinations informed by our Judco-Christian heritage as passed down through the ages---the same heritage that provided the crucible in which the great authors formed these classic works. Edited by acclaimed literary biographer Joseph Pearce, the lgnatius Critical Editions ensure that readings of the works are filtered through the richness of Western tradition, meeting the authors in their clement, instead of the currently popular method of deconstructing a classic to fit a modern mindsct---a lamentable flaw that often proliferates in other series of critical editions. The Series is ideal for anyone wishing to understand the great works of Western Civilization, enabling the modern reader to enjoy these classics in the company of some of the finest literature professors alive today.
Author : Jonathan Swift
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 29,58 MB
Release : 2005-03-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0192805347
IGulliver's Travels purports to be a travel book, and describes the shipwrecked Gulliver's encounters with the inhabitants of four extraordinary places: Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa, and the country of the Houyhnhnms. A consumately skilful blend of fantasy and realism makes Gulliver's Travels by turns hilarious, frightening, and profound. This new edition includes the changing frontispiece portraits of Gulliver that appeared in successive early editions. - ;'Thus, gentle Reader, I have given thee a faithful History of my Travels for Sixteen Years, and above Seven Months; wherein I have not been so studious of Ornament as of Truth.' In these words Gulliver represents himself as a reliable reporter of the fantastic adventures he has just set down; but how far can we rely on a narrator whose identity is elusive and whoses inventiveness is self-evident? Gulliver's Travels purports to be a travel book, and describes Gulliver's encounters with the inhabitants of four extraordinary places: Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa, and the country of the Houyhnhnms. A consummately skilful blend of fantasy and realism makes Gulliver's Travels by turns hilarious, frightening, and profound. Swift plays tricks on us, and delivers one of the world's most disturbing satires of the human condition. This new edition includes the changing frontispiece portraits of Gulliver that appeared in successive early editions. -
Author : G. Ravenscroft Dennis
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Page : pages
File Size : 34,51 MB
Release : 1905
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Author : Frederik N. Smith
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 22,91 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Imaginary societies in literature
ISBN : 9780874133592
A reevaluation of Swift's masterpiece and a test of the usefulness of examining a text through the perspective of genre. Gulliver is explored from the standpoint of picaresque, history, novel, children's literature, illustrated book, scientific prose, science fiction, philosophical treatise, and satire.
Author : Jonathan Swift
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File Size : 19,27 MB
Release : 1909
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