Diapositiva 1

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Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
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Gullivers Travels (1726)
Political Pamphlets
Journalism
The Examiner (1710-11)
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The Battle of Books
Satires Burlesques
A Tale of a Tub
A Tale of a Tub
Pro Anglican Church
Corruptions in Religion Learning
Con Spiritual Corruption of Rome Presbiterian
Non-Conformist
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Journal to Stella (1710-13)
Letters Poetry
Irish Affairs
Political Writer (1720s 1730s)
The Drapiers Letters (1724)
A Modest Proposal (1729)
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Historia Crítica de la Novela Inglesa Ed. J.A.
Álvarez Amorós pp. 40-43 Los Orígenes de la
Novela Inglesa y Su Desarrollo en el Siglo XVIII,
1660-1760 Isabel Medrano Vicario
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Alexander Pope
Augustan Values
Jonathan Swift
Order
Moderation
Balance
Harmony
Decorum
SATIRE
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Swift
Augustan ART Conventions
Individualism
Hybrid Prose
Realism
Personal Dubious Reality
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Scriblerus Club
Alexander Pope
Jonathan Swift
Thomas Parnell
John Gay
John Arbuthnot
Tory Wits
Pretentious Erudition Scholarly Jargon
Memoires of Martinus Scriblerus (1713)
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John Gays The Beggars Opera
Scriblerus Club
Swift
Gullivers Travels Book III Laputa
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A Note on the Text
THE textual history of Gullivers Travels, like
almost everything else about the book, is far
from straightforward.
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Gullivers Travels
Modernity
Adventure Story
Travelogue
Morals
Complex Satire on 18thC
Thought

• Satire on Contemporary Politics Culture
• Utopian Fantasy
• Christian Apology
• Travellers Tale

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Exaggeration Of Characteristic Features of the
Victims Personality
Satire
Verbal Caricature

Person
Institution
Society
Gullivers Travels
Juvenalian Satire
Bitter Ironic Criticism
Personal Invective
Angry Moral Indignation
Pessimism
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Gullivers Travels
Preface
Opening Paragraph
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Gullivers Travels
Misanthropic Anatomy of Human Nature
Deflation of Human Pride
Fictional Lands
?
Western Civilization
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Gullivers Travels Book I
Present Time
Lilliputians
Satire of English Politics
Whigs
Tories
Corruption
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Gullivers Travels Book I
Imperialism
Prime Minister
Trade Wars
Lilliput
Blefuscu
?
England
France
?
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Human Abuse of Political Power Authority
Gullivers Travels Book I
Lilliput
Microcosm
Vices Follies
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Gullivers Travels Book II
Gulliver
Giants
?
English People
Moral
Ideal
Society
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Gullivers Travels Book II
Violent English Culture
Gullivers Reflection 125 II.i
Vice
Gullivers Pride Describes But
Immorality
The King Rightly Learns 172 II.vi 172-73
II.vi 164 Sum
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Gullivers Travels Book II
Has the King of Brobdingnag Misunderstood
Gullivers Narration?
Why Does Gulliver Blame the King? 173-174 II.vii
? 166 II.vi
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Gullivers Travels Book III
Gullivers First Impresions of Laputians 205-06
III.ii
Satire on Exaggerated Philosophy Science
Conceptual
Sensible
vs
205 III.ii
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Gullivers Travels Book III
Gullivers Crucial Understanding of Human
Nature 244 III.viii
Glubbdubdrib Island of Sorcerers
?
Turning Point
Swifts View of Man
Degeneration
Regeneration
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Gullivers Travels Book IV
Darker
More Savage
Deeply Disturbing
Yahoos
Foul
Brutal
Disgusting
270 IV.i
276 IV.ii
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Gullivers Travels Book IV
Yahoos
Houyhnhnms
Yahoos
?
Unreason
Reason
Unreason
Sanity
Madness
Love
Man
Coldness
Art
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Gullivers Travels Book IV
Moral of Book IV?
The Closer We Look At the Yahoos The More
Horrible gt Human
Moral of the Whole Work?
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Perceptions
Gullivers
Change
Narration
Satire Social Criticism
Lilliput
Idea of Humanity
Houyhnhnms