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Comparative Literature (2001) 53 (1): 27–41.
Published: 01 January 2001
.... New York: Noonday, 1993 . 79 -124. Booth, James. “Myth, Metaphor, and Syntax in Soyinka's Poetry.” Research in African Literatures 17 . 1 ( 1986 ): 53 -72. “A Contemporary Source for the Yahoos in Gulliver's Travels.” Notes and Queries 243 [New Series] 1 ( 1998 ): 68 . Downie...
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Comparative Literature (2022) 74 (3): 345–372.
Published: 01 September 2022
... Klim , Holberg borrows heavily from Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels (1726), copying structure and motifs but without pursuing Gulliver ’s misanthropy ( Sejersted, “Reise” ). The eponymous protagonist embarks on a fantastic voyage across diverse lands that make obvious how nations are products...
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Comparative Literature (2008) 60 (2): 142–163.
Published: 01 March 2008
..., J. Douglas. Pierrot in Petrogad. The Commedia dell'Arte/Balagan in Twentieth-Century Russian Theatre and Drama . Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1993 . Clifford, James L. “Gulliver's Fourth Voyage. `Hard' and `Soft' Schools of Interpretation.” Quick Springs of Sense. Studies...
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Comparative Literature (2014) 66 (2): 250–252.
Published: 01 June 2014
... national realism. A similar skepticism pervades oriental beast fables —​such as the third-century AD Sanskrit text Pañcatantra, translated into Arabic as Kalila wa Dimna —​whose talking animals relate moral and sociopolitical philosophies adapted in Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, Behn’s Oroo- noko...
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Comparative Literature (2016) 68 (4): 389–407.
Published: 01 December 2016
... character, a freedom fighter called Gulliver, and his companions cross the border on their way from Mozambique to Zimbabwe: Pavakangopfuura Chicualacuala vachipinda muZimbabwe, boka raMax na Gulliver rakabva raparadzana navamwe vazhinji vakanga vachienda Beitbridge kudunhu rokwaMazunga. Rwendo...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (3): 351–353.
Published: 01 September 2017
... to man, and which is thought to have altered the rotation of the earth upon its axis). Li ultimately reads these two stories together as a cinematic diptych within Jia’s broader oeuvre. The miniaturized park and the gargantuan engineering project expose a “global travel narrative in the Gulliver...
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Comparative Literature (2012) 64 (1): 93–109.
Published: 01 March 2012
... . Serres Michel . The Birth of Physics . Ed. Webb David . Trans. Hawkes Jack . Manchester : Clinamen , 2000 . Print . Swift Jonathan . Gulliver's Travels . Ed. Turner Paul . Oxford : Oxford UP , 1986 . Print . Yates Frances . The Art of Memory . London...
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Comparative Literature (2000) 52 (4): 363–366.
Published: 01 September 2000
... concentrate on particular works and writers: “What Happens in Othello?” BOOK REVIEWS/367 “Reading Gulliver’s Travels,” “On a Word in Wordsworth,” and others on Pater, Joyce, Yeats, and Cormac McCarthy. The distinction here, however, is one...
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Comparative Literature (2000) 52 (4): 366–369.
Published: 01 September 2000
... concentrate on particular works and writers: “What Happens in Othello?” BOOK REVIEWS/367 “Reading Gulliver’s Travels,” “On a Word in Wordsworth,” and others on Pater, Joyce, Yeats, and Cormac McCarthy. The distinction here, however, is one...
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Comparative Literature (2000) 52 (4): 369–372.
Published: 01 September 2000
... concentrate on particular works and writers: “What Happens in Othello?” BOOK REVIEWS/367 “Reading Gulliver’s Travels,” “On a Word in Wordsworth,” and others on Pater, Joyce, Yeats, and Cormac McCarthy. The distinction here, however, is one...
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Comparative Literature (2000) 52 (4): 372–376.
Published: 01 September 2000
... “Three Ways of Reading”—titles that are clearly distinguished from those of the seven essays of Part 2, which concentrate on particular works and writers: “What Happens in Othello?” BOOK REVIEWS/367 “Reading Gulliver’s Travels...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (4): 420–421.
Published: 01 September 2010
... the philosophical,” Davidson says, “does violence to the matters with which all of these disciplines are con- cerned” (8). Thus, in one typical chapter she moves from Virgil’s Georgics  to Defoe’s Robin­ son Crusoe  and Mere Nature Delineated  to Swift’s fantasies of eugenics in Gulliver’s Travels (with short...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (4): 421–423.
Published: 01 September 2010
... the philosophical,” Davidson says, “does violence to the matters with which all of these disciplines are con- cerned” (8). Thus, in one typical chapter she moves from Virgil’s Georgics  to Defoe’s Robin­ son Crusoe  and Mere Nature Delineated  to Swift’s fantasies of eugenics in Gulliver’s Travels (with short...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (4): 423–426.
Published: 01 September 2010
... the philosophical,” Davidson says, “does violence to the matters with which all of these disciplines are con- cerned” (8). Thus, in one typical chapter she moves from Virgil’s Georgics  to Defoe’s Robin­ son Crusoe  and Mere Nature Delineated  to Swift’s fantasies of eugenics in Gulliver’s Travels (with short...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (4): 426–429.
Published: 01 September 2010
...” (8). Thus, in one typical chapter she moves from Virgil’s Georgics  to Defoe’s Robin­ son Crusoe  and Mere Nature Delineated  to Swift’s fantasies of eugenics in Gulliver’s Travels (with short digressions on John Ray’s The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation, Plato, and Thomas...
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Comparative Literature (2010) 62 (4): 429–431.
Published: 01 September 2010
... the philosophical,” Davidson says, “does violence to the matters with which all of these disciplines are con- cerned” (8). Thus, in one typical chapter she moves from Virgil’s Georgics  to Defoe’s Robin­ son Crusoe  and Mere Nature Delineated  to Swift’s fantasies of eugenics in Gulliver’s Travels (with short...
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Comparative Literature (2017) 69 (3): 271–287.
Published: 01 September 2017
.... And this is hardly the only example of what we might call a singular affinity between the two literatures, a moment where they are revealed to have unique commonalities. In fact, there are many such pairs: the biting satire of Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels and Ignacy Krasicki’s Mikołaja Doświadczyńskiego...
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Comparative Literature (2003) 55 (1): 24–41.
Published: 01 January 2003
... THE MARTIANS ARE COMING!/37 vision of the remedy. In a brilliant passage written in a style reminiscent of Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels or Johann Gottfried Schnabel’s Die Insel Felsenburg, he provides us with a mirror in which we can see exactly what is wrong with our society. In an article...