Gulliveriana

Author : A. Kelly
Publisher : Springer
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137082640

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Jonathan Swift and Popular Culture Myth, Media and the Man by A. Kelly Pdf

Ann Kelly's provocative book breaks the mold of Swift studies. Twentieth century Swift scholars have tended to assess Jonathan Swift as a pillar of the eighteenth-century 'republic of letter', a conservative, even reactionary voice upholding classical values against the welling tide of popularization in literature. Kelly looks at Swift instead as a practical exponent of the popular and impressario of the literary image. She argues that Swift turned his back on the elite to write for a popular audience, and that he annexed scandals to his fictionalized print alter ego, creating a continual demand for works by or about this self-mythologized figure. A fascinating look at print culture, the commodification of the author, and the history of popular culture, this book should provoke lots of discussion.

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Criticism
ISBN : 9781438113906

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Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift, New Edition by Harold Bloom Pdf

Presents a collection of essays analyzing Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's travels, including a chronology of the author's works and life.

Author : Thomas Sheridan
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 0874134951

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The Poems of Thomas Sheridan by Thomas Sheridan Pdf

"The reputation of Thomas Sheridan has probably suffered from the occasional ridicule of his longtime friend and collaborator Jonathan Swift. Nevertheless, Swift valued Sheridan's wit and company immensely, and the verse-warfares in which the two friends often indulged were not always won by Swift." "Sheridan was not only one of the most memorable Dubliners of the early eighteenth century. Convivial, charming, highspirited, and feckless, he was also a prominent schoolmaster (the best in Europe, according to Swift), cleric, translator, playwright, essayist, and a prolific writer of accomplished light verse. Called Tom Pun-Sibi, or Tom the Punster, because of his droll essay The Art of Punning, he poured forth a seemingly endless stream of punning satires, verse letters to his friends, and satirical observations on the Dublin of his day." "For all of his prolific output, only some of his Swift poems have remained in print, and they are in various editions of Swift's verse. This volume gathers together for the first time Sheridan's complete poetic works, including those published as broadsides or in contemporary journals and those contained in unpublished letters and manuscripts. Of particular interest for such a social poet is the inclusion of poems to and about Sheridan by his many friends and very vocal enemies."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Daniel Cook,Nicholas Seager
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108830195

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The Cambridge Companion to Gulliver's Travels by Daniel Cook,Nicholas Seager Pdf

The definitive guide to Swift's controversial satirical masterpiece, Gulliver's Travels, demonstrating its complexity and enduring legacy.

Author : Various
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 2883 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780191025419

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Armchair Sailor Collection by Various Pdf

Oxford World's Classics brings you a collection of the best voyages in literature. Take a journey of your own through the eyes of beloved literary characters in this set, which includes Gullivers Travels, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Robinson Crusoe, Moby Dick, and Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Brummel. Catch-up on the classics you will remember for a lifetime. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Author : Daniel Cook,Nicholas Seager
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107054684

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The Afterlives of Eighteenth-Century Fiction by Daniel Cook,Nicholas Seager Pdf

This collection of essays offers insights into the ways in which eighteenth-century novels have been adapted and appropriated by later writers. It will be of interest to students of the rise of the novel, interdisciplinary approaches to literature, and the developing field of adaptation studies.

Author : David Francis Taylor
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780300235593

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The Politics of Parody by David Francis Taylor Pdf

This engaging study explores how the works of Shakespeare, Milton, Swift, and others were taken up by caricaturists as a means of helping the eighteenth-century British public make sense of political issues, outrages, and personalities. The first in-depth exploration of the relationship between literature and visual satire in this period, David Taylor’s book explores how great texts, seen through the lens of visual parody, shape how we understand the political world. It offers a fascinating, novel approach to literary history.

Author : R. Reginald,Douglas Menville,Mary A. Burgess
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 802 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780941028769

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Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature by R. Reginald,Douglas Menville,Mary A. Burgess Pdf

Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, A Checklist, 1700-1974, Volume one of Two, contains an Author Index, Title Index, Series Index, Awards Index, and the Ace and Belmont Doubles Index.

Author : Jonathan Swift
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2008-06-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780191579615

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Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift Pdf

'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. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Author : Moyra Haslett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350317581

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Pope to Burney, 1714-1779 by Moyra Haslett Pdf

This essential guide defines literature of the eighteenth century as a literature written and received as public conversation. Moyra Haslett discusses and challenges conventional ways of reading the period, particularly in relation to notions of the public sphere. In her wide-ranging study, Haslett reads key texts - including The Dunciad, Gulliver's Travels and Pamela - in their literary and cultural contexts, and examines such genres as the periodical, the familiar letter, the verse epistle and the novel as textual equivalents of coterie culture.

Author : Werner Busch,Hubertus Fischer,Joachim Möller
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Books
ISBN : 9783825815431

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Entree aus Schrift und Bild by Werner Busch,Hubertus Fischer,Joachim Möller Pdf

Author : Paul Longley Arthur
Publisher : Anthem Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1843313189

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Virtual Voyages by Paul Longley Arthur Pdf

'Virtual Voyages' is a fascinating account of the European discovery of the elusive 'great south land' told through the literature of 'imaginary voyages'. Written at the height of the era of European maritime exploration, these bizarre and captivating tales, with their wildly imaginative visions of antipodean inversion and strangeness, reveal a hidden history of attitudes to colonization. By exposing the relationship between myth and reality in the antipodes, this book casts new light on the power of fiction to influence history. In the post-colonial studies field, books about travel writing and empire have tended to focus on the high period of nineteenth-century imperialism and on the colonial settings of Africa and India. This book offers a fresh perspective by focussing on the eighteenth century, and referring to the geographical region of Australia and the Pacific, which has had far less attention. The book also breaks new ground by being the first to approach the genre of the imaginary voyage from a post-colonial perspective. In addition to the new insights into European colonialism that it offers, the book illustrates many broader themes in eighteenth-century history and thought. These include connections between the rise of science and modern imperialism, the development of narrative history and fiction and the influence of romanticism, the evolution of the early novel in Britain and France, and the role of mythology in the development of national identity.

Author : Eugene Hammond
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 841 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781611496109

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Jonathan Swift by Eugene Hammond Pdf

Jonathan Swift: Our Dean (along with its companion, Jonathan Swift: Irish Blow-in) aspires to be the most accurate and engaging critical biography of Jonathan Swift ever. It builds on the thorough research of Irvin Ehrenpreis’s highly regarded 1962–1983 three-volume biography, but re-interprets Swift’s life and works by re-assessing his 1714–1720 repudiating the pretender while remaining friends with many who did not, by acknowledging that he likely had a physical affair with Esther Vanhomrigh between 1719 and 1723, by questioning whether in any sense he was a misanthrope, by noting his real care for Esther Johnson in her final illness, and by emphasizing the mutual love between Swift and his caretakers during his final difficult years.

Author : Milo Manara
Publisher : Humanoids, Inc.
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-12
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781594654176

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Milo Manara's Gullivera by Milo Manara Pdf

The loosely inspired adventures of Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, sensually revisited by an undisputed master of erotic comics.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : English literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105121698349

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The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats by Anonim Pdf