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Stephenson, Lois Bea. "Ethos in "Gulliver's Travels"." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 1994. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/863.
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Dekle, Mark. "Gulliver's travels to the screen, giant and tiny." [Tampa, Fla] : University of South Florida, 2009. http://purl.fcla.edu/usf/dc/et/SFE0003085.
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Jones, David Francis. "Swift's use of the literature of travel in the composition of "Gulliver's travels"." Thesis, University of Warwick, 1987. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/4211/.
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The primary aim of this thesis is to identify and assess the correspondences which occur between Gulliver's Travels and non fiction travel writing to which Swift is known to have had access before and during the period of composition. Books of travels listed by Harold Williams in Dean Swift's Library (Cambridge, 1932) have been consulted. In particular, the thesis examines the possible contribution of travel documents published by Hakluyt and Purchas. The method of research employed has been to concentrate upon themes such as the veracity of travel writers, stylistic features, primitive savages, strange islands, magic,attitudes to voyaging, bows and arrows, pygmies and giants, motives for travel, law and customs. The first chapter summarizes known and possible influences, considering the broad combination of fabulous and imaginary prose travel with Swift's mock realism. The second chapter develops the analysis of literary parody and considers the uneasy satirical relationship between travel lies and Gulliver's ironic veracity, with particular reference to magic and astrology. Chapters 3-7 comprise five regional studies of several themes which have been considered of special relevance to Gulliver's Travels, following this survey of travel writing. The conclusions reached in the course of the thesis relate to the allusive power and ironic depth of Gulliver's Travels. Whereas R.W. Frantz, W.A. Eddy, Arthur Sherbo and others have noticed incidental parallels in real travel literature, no comprehensive study exists of the subject as a whole. The thesis treats Hakluyt and Purchas in detail in working towards establishing the conventions of travel writing which are partly imitated and partly mocked by Swift. The extent to which it is intended that the reader should be conscious of the real travel background is also explored. Although source hunting can be an unprofitable activity, the large number of correspondences between Gulliver's Travels and the literature of real travel upon which the work is partly based suggest Swift was more conversant with voyages and travels than may have been presumed. These travel features appear to have been carefully intermingled with recognizable Homeric, Rabelaisian and Lucianic elements.
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Salvucci, James Gerard. "Gulliver's travels and constructs of the primitive in Swift's time." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp03/NQ49887.pdf.
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Leong, Kam Ieng Kammy. "A case study of two annotated translations of Gulliver's Travels." Thesis, University of Macau, 2018. http://umaclib3.umac.mo/record=b3954283.
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Karobonik, Teri Jane. "SATIRE AND THE BRITISH TRAVEL NARRATIVE IN GULLIVER'S TRAVELS AND HITCHHIKERS GUIDE TO THE GALAXY." Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/192499.
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Colombo, Alice. "Reworkings in the textual history of Gulliver's Travels : a translational approach." Thesis, University of Portsmouth, 2013. https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/reworkings-in-the-textual-history-of-gullivers-travels(14665966-f5f9-4ff4-b1fd-48ab496fa65d).html.
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On 28 October 1726 Gulliver’s Travels debuted on the literary scene as a political and philosophical satire meant to provoke and entertain an audience of relatively educated and wealthy British readers. Since then, Swift’s work has gradually evolved, assuming multiple forms and meanings while becoming accessible and attractive to an increasingly broad readership in and outside Britain. My study emphasises that reworkings, including re-editions, translations, abridgments, adaptations and illustrations, have played a primary role in this process. Its principal aim is to investigate how reworkings contributed to the popularity of Gulliver’s Travels by examining the dynamics and the stages through which they transformed its text and its original significance. Central to my research is the assumption that this transformation is largely the result of shifts of a translational nature and that, therefore, the analysis of reworkings and the understanding of their role can greatly benefit from the models of translation description devised in Descriptive Translation Studies. The reading of reworkings as entailing processes of translation shows how derivative creations operate collaboratively to ensure literary works’ continuous visibility and actively shape the literary polysystem. The study opens with an exploration of existing approaches to reworkings followed by an examination of the characteristics which exposed Gulliver’s Travels to continuous rethinking and reworking. Emphasis is put on how the work’s satirical significance gave rise to a complex early textual problem for which Gulliver’s Travels can be said to have debuted on the literary scene as a derivative production in the first place. The largest part of the study is devoted to textual analysis. This is carried out in two stages. First I concentrate on reworkings of Gulliver’s Travels published in eighteenth- and in nineteenth-century Italy. These illustrate how interlingual translation operated alongside criticism, abridgment, adaptation and pictorial representation to extend the accessibility of Swift’s work and eventually turned it into a popular and children’s book. Then, I examine British reworkings and how the translational processes which they entail contributed to the popularity and the popularisation of Gulliver’s Travels in eighteenth-century Britain.
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Vieira, Adriana Silene. "Viagens de Gulliver ao Brasil : estudos das adaptações de Gulliver's Travels por Carlos Jansen e por Monteiro Lobato." [s.n.], 2004. http://repositorio.unicamp.br/jspui/handle/REPOSIP/269611.
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Orientador: Marisa LajoloTese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem
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Resumo: O propósito deste trabalho é fazer uma comparação entre a obra Gulliver's Travels (1726), de Jonathan Swift, e suas primeiras adaptações brasileiras. Em primeiro lugar, consideramos o texto integral e depois passamos à história de suas condensações e adaptações dentro da própria língua inglesa. A seguir fomos ao nosso tema principal, as adaptações da obra para o português feitas por Carlos Jansen (em 1888) e Monteiro Lobato (em 1937), discutindo problemas de adaptação, tradução, e recepção e as relações entre o texto, o intermediário (tradutor, adaptador) e o público a quem este se destina. Neste caso, o público seria, num primeiro momento, no final do século XIX, os estudantes do Colégio D. Pedro II, e num segundo momento, início do século xx, as crianças brasileiras em geral e em particular as leitoras da obra infantil de Lobato. A adaptação de Lobato, (assim como sua obra infantil posterior a 1926), foi publicada pela Cia Editora Nacional
Abstract: The aim of this work is a comparison between the original Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift and the two first Brazilian versions of it. Firstly we considered the integral work and then we studied the story of its condensations and abridgements within the English language. After that we went to the main theme of our work, which is the adaptations of the work made by Carlos Jansen (in 1888) and Monteiro Lobato (in 1937). When we did that we discussed the problems of adaptation, translation and reception, and the relations among the work, the intermediate (the translator, adaptator) and the public to whom the adaptation is supposed to be held in our case this public was, in the first moment, the students ftom D. Pedro II school. Then, more precisely in the beginning of the twentieth century, the Brazilian children in general, and the readers of Lobato's works in particular published-like all his works after 1926 - by the publishing house, Companhia Editora Nacional
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Teoria e Historia Literaria
Doutor em Letras
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Lombard, Johanna Christina. "A pangalactic gargle blaster of Lilliputian proportions: A comparative analysis of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels and Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/62647.
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Douglas Adams and Jonathan Swift are satirists who lived and worked 250 years apart. Swift's eighteenth-century text, Gulliver's Travels, tells the story of an Englishman's adventures during numerous sea voyages that bring him into contact with fantastical peoples and places. Adams's twentieth-century text, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, relates a hapless Englishman's trials and tribulations during an intergalactic voyage which takes him and his companions to bizarre destinations. This study considers key similarities and differences between the texts. Resonances between Gulliver's celestial navigation in the eighteenth century and Arthur Dent's navigation among those very heavenly bodies in the twentieth century are explored. The novels are examined for evidence of satire, the travel genre, proto science fiction and mock science fiction and for generic similarities between the works. Through a process of elimination, Gulliver's and Arthur Dent's respective journeys are abstracted, summarised and represented graphically. Communication theory and linguistic trends during the Enlightenment and the twentieth century, as well as the science and technology of each era are also briefly reviewed. This study finds that, through the exploitation of the journey as literary device which allows Gulliver and Arthur Dent to view England and Earth from different places and from different times, both Swift and Adams are able to comment on and satirise humankind. The illustrations of the journeys highlight the differences between the two novels in terms of structure and adherence to markers of time and place. Lemuel Gulliver's journeys are shown to be radial voyages with England as the core location of departures and arrivals, whereas Arthur's appear to be random and follow neither the expected and known rules of travel, nor the laws of time and space. The study furthermore considers the nature of the locations visited and finds resemblances and differences between the authors' and readers' known worlds, and the fictitious worlds described. This naturally leads to a consideration of the degree of alienation experienced by the protagonists and, indeed, humanity. Finally, the texts are examined for communication problems faced by the protagonists. The conclusion of this study suggests that in Gulliver's Travels and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy both Adams and Swift show their awareness that language is not neutral, and that it possesses the power to entertain, inform, deceive and destroy. Both texts function metonymically to highlight the perilous complexity of the human condition and show that humanity's journey through space/time in the twentieth century remains as treacherous as one by sea during the Enlightenment.Dissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2017.
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Prior-Palmer, Elizabeth Mary Adams. "The transformation of Robinson Crusoe and Gulliver's Travels into children's classics : from initial publication to the nineteenth century." Thesis, University of Exeter, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.302570.
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Menzies, Ruth. "Les "Voyages de Gulliver" de Jonathan Swift et la tradition française du voyage imaginaire : parcours intertextuels et identité générique." La Réunion, 2004. http://elgebar.univ-reunion.fr/login?url=http://thesesenligne.univ.run/04_06_Menzies.pdf.
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Les "Voyages de Gulliver" s'inscrivent dans la tradition du voyage imaginaire, genre fondé par Lucien de Samosate, et qui a connu un grand essor en France au XVIIe siècle. Les liens entre l'oeuvre de Swift et les récits en français relèvent de deux types. D'une part, des relations intertextuelles rattachent les "Voyages" à plusieurs hypotextes (l'"Histoire véritable" dans la version des d'Ablancourt, le "Quart livre" de Rabelais et "L'autre monde" de Cyrano de Bergerac). D'autre part, certaines similitudes résultent de l'appartenance commune au genre du voyage imaginaire. Partageant de nombreux codes et topoi͏̈ avec l'"Histoire des Sévarambes" de Veiras, "La Terre australe connue" de Foigny, et les "Voyages et aventures de Jacques Massé" de Tyssot de Patot, le récit de Swift s'ancre dans un réseau générique, et mène une réflexion critique sur la société, sur les rapports entre vérité et fiction ainsi que sur la continuité littéraire, quíl incarne et perpétue"Gulliver's travels" belong to the imaginary voyage tradition, founded by Lucian of Samosata and particularly popular in 17th-Century France. The links between Swift's work and the texts in French are of two types. The "Travels" are intertextually connected to several hypotexts (the d'Ablancourt version of the "True history", Rabelais' "Quart livre", Cyrano de Bergerac's "L'autre monde"), whereas other resemblances are the result of traits characteristic of the genre. Swift's text shares many codes and topoi͏̈ with Veiras' "Histoire des Sévarambes", Foigny's "Terre australe connue" and Tyssot de Patot's "Voyages et aventures de Jacques Massé", anchoring itself firmly within a textual network in order to reflect upon human society, truth and fiction, as well as literary continuity, which the work both embodies and perpetuates
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Guerra, Leonardo José César de Mattos. "Viagens de Gulliver: recepção (história) e interpretação (crítica)." Universidade de São Paulo, 2012. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8138/tde-31082012-110646/.
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Desde sua primeira impressão, em Londres, no ano de 1726, Viagens de Gulliver, de Jonathan Swift, tem sido amplamente lida e, conseqüentemente, reimpressa. No entanto, o evidente sucesso editorial do livro não permite concluir que ele tenha ganhado incontestável aprovação do público nem tampouco pode levar-nos a pensar que suas interpretações foram sempre consensuais. Prova disso reside nos dissensos do período pós-publicação os quais se estenderam e alargaram até a era vitoriana, no século XIX, a partir de quando a obra mais importante de Jonathan Swift adquiriu novas leituras, especialmente no mundo anglo-norte-americano, até que, por fim, ingressasse no panteão dos grandes textos da moderna literatura de língua inglesa. Apresentar algumas das leituras e interpretações de peso do período vitoriano, considerando as nuances da crítica e da historiografia que trataram de Viagens de Gulliver, bem como introduzir os argumentos de alguns autores que, do fim do século XIX até a primeira metade do XX, revisitaram tanto essa obra como certos comentários acerca dela são, pois, os objetivos primordiais deste trabalho.Since Gullivers Travels by Jonathan Swift, was printed in London, in 1726, it has been largely read and, consequently, reprinted. However, the evident editorial success of the book does not let to conclude that it had gained incontestable public approval, neither lead to think that interpretations about it were always consensual. A proof for this lays on disagreements from the post-publication period which had spread and enlarged until the Victorian age, in the 19th century; since then the most important book of Jonathan Swift has acquired new readings, especially in the Anglo-North-American world, and after all it got into the pantheon of the great texts of the English modern literature. Presenting some important readings and interpretations from the Victorian age, considering the nuances of the criticism and historiography that dealt with Gullivers Travels, as well as introducing arguments of some authors whom, from the end of the 19th century to the begin of the 20th century, revisited both the book and some commentaries concerning to it, are the prime objectives of this work.
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Dekle, Mark. "Gulliver’s Travels to the Screen, Giant and Tiny." Scholar Commons, 2009. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/1928.
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Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift, has captured readers' imaginations for almost three hundred years, spawning countless adaptations over several different mediums. As different means of communicating and transforming art have been invented, these adaptations have grown to fill the new mediums and make use of the various possibilities each form has created. Film in particular has created an enormous opportunity to re-imagine Gulliver's Travels, since it can directly show the audience the fictional foreign locations in which Gulliver finds himself.
In this study, I examine seven screen adaptations of Swift's novel to determine what our current culture views as the core of the work, or what we see as the important pieces to pass on to current and future audiences.
The seven chosen adaptations were selected based on how well they have survived over the last century; adaptations which are no longer available for commercial purchase and/or viewing were excluded from the study. I have also only included works which maintain a resemblance to the original story in structure, even if merely loosely, and have excluded works which bear only a thematic tie; I based my choices on the works which make an overt claim to be interpretations of the original text. This study examines only the works which seek to directly represent the original novel. By looking at Swift's work through the lens of adaptation, this study will show how Swift's work is currently perceived, and examines what that may mean for the future of Swift's legacy. As cultural views and connotations of language have changed, the directors of the adaptations have used different means to achieve sometimes similar, sometimes different messages.
Gulliver's Travels was originally a satiric work that addressed social problems of eighteenth-century England. Popular views on society have changed, however, as have the politicians holding office. Certain events in Gulliver's Travels, such as the reading of Gulliver's offences in Lilliput, no longer have nearly the same relevance. Therefore, it is important to examine how the directors address these changes to determine what will retain relevance over time.
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Hodson, Katrin C. "The Plight of the Englishman: The Hazards of Colonization Addressed in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels." Wittenberg University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=wuhonors1617896210333106.
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Bacon, Edwin Bruce. "Confronting eternity : strange (im)mortalities, and states of undying in popular fiction." Thesis, University of Canterbury. English, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/9680.
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When the meritless scrabble for the bauble of deity, they ironically set their human lives at the “pin’s fee” to which Shakespeare’s Hamlet refers. This thesis focuses on these undeserving individuals in premillennial and postmillennial fiction, who seek immortality at the expense of both their humanities, and their natural mortalities.
I will analyse an array of popular modern characters, paying particular attention to the precursors of immortal personages. I will inaugurate these analyses with an examination of fan favourite series
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Khattak, Nasir Jamal. "“Gulliver's Travels”: A journey through the unconscious." 2001. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3012148.
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Gulliver's Travels has been admired and criticized alike since its appearance in print for its scathing satire. It has mostly been read as an allegory whose prototypes were contemporary events and figures. Critics have found counterparts and analogies for its characters and events in the political and historical scenes of eighteenth-century England. Studying Gulliver's Travels from an allegorical point of view, however, conceals its universality from us. Allegorical readings usually focus on the first and third voyages, and are based on the assumption that Gulliver is a mouthpiece, not a character. The question of the nature of Gulliver's character is still very popular and controversial. Critics are divided into the “Hard” and “Soft” schools of interpretation in their readings of Gulliver and his travels. The former consider Gulliver as an artistic device; the latter as a fully developed character with some psychological flaws. Though “Soft” school critics make a convincing case, they do not fully explain Gulliver's psychological abnormalities. Both the schools focus on the issue of the Swift-Gulliver debate with reference to Gulliver's final voyage alone, and usually overlook the other three parts. Thus both allegorical readings and the “Hard” and “Soft” schools of interpretation create and strengthen the erroneous impression that Gulliver's Travels lacks artistic unity. This study focuses on the universality of Gulliver Travels and argues that Gulliver's four voyages are a journey through the human unconscious. It is the story of Gulliver's encounter with the unexplored and unacknowledged aspects of his personality. The four remote nations and their denizens represent the contents of the unconscious, and symbolize different archetypal qualities, which are common to all members of human race. The worlds that Gulliver visits are all within him but he is unconscious of them due to his lack of self-knowledge. Lemuel Gulliver is a fully developed character who gradually but consistently regresses due to his extreme extraverted-sensation-type personality. Gulliver's excessive dependence on sense perception has widely been documented but rarely explored. This study accentuates the psychological dynamics and social implications of Gulliver's excessive extraversion and lack of self-knowledge, and uses Jungian analytical psychology as a tool to study Gulliver's abnormalities. My strategy involves a close reading of the text to show that a central thread runs through Gulliver's Travels, and that every episode in the four parts of the book contributes to Gulliver's alienation from himself and from humanity.
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吳保漢. "The representation of the subject/object/abject in Gulliver's Travels." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/39674470887038203771.
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碩士國立政治大學
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This thesis investigates the representation of the subject/object/abject in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels. In Chapter One, I give a short introduction to describe what and why I want to talk about these representations in this thesis. Following the introductory chapter, Chapter Two explores the representation of the subject and provides a prominent example of Gulliver’s urinating act in Lilliput. This behavior not only constructs Gulliver’s subjectivity, but also helps examine the idea of home. Kristeva’s idea of “the Semiotic and the Symbolic” and Freud’s concept of “fort-da” game are adopted to discuss the dynamics of travel and Gulliver’s traveling subject. Chapter Three examines the way to decode and encode what the strangers speak in alien lands. To address the problem of the linguistic system of the strangers, Kristeva’s idea of “materiality of language” is elucidated. I also offer two examples from the Flappers and the Yahoos to call into question Gulliver’s role as a speaking subject. Foucault’s idea of power and Kristeva’s concept of “genotext” provide a possibility to discuss the relation between the subject and the discourse. In Chapter Four, the representation of the abject is particularly presented by Gulliver’s voyage in the Houyhnhnm-land. The presence of the Yahoos elicits Gulliver’s psychological symptom and problematizes his subject. Moreover, Gulliver’s return to his homeland and his acting-outs suggest that Gulliver is a stranger to himself. Kristeva’s theory of abject offers an effective way to describe Gulliver’s transformation. By focusing on the representation of the subject/object/abject in Gulliver’s Travels, my thesis provides a more newfangled interpretation of this classical text.
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CHEN, SHI-ZHE, and 陳世哲. ""This isthmus of a middle state":Johathan Swift's concept of man in Gulliver's travels." Thesis, 1988. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/47961018992682700845.
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"如何「諷刺」: Gulliver's travels 晚清譯本《海外軒渠錄》研究 = How to satirize : a case study of one Chinese translation of Gulliver's travels in late Qing." 2014. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b6115936.
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本論文以Gulliver’s Travels晚清時期的中譯本《海外軒渠錄》（1906）為研究對象，探討譯者對原文諷刺手法的翻譯策略。Gulliver’s Travels 是西方諷刺（satire）文學經典之作，主要通過「敘事角色」（persona）以及「想像遊記」（imaginary voyage）的手法取得諷刺效果。晚清時期中西文學傳統殊異，想要在中文語境中再現原文的諷刺特點，並非易事。本論文通過具體的文本對比和分析發現，由於中國文學傳統以及晚清翻譯規範的影響，譯者在翻譯過程中改寫原文，因此《海外軒渠錄》未能體現Gulliver’s Travels的諷刺手法，而譯文也從一個側面展示出中西文學相互碰撞、對話的過程。本研究希望藉此個案，從文學表現以及文學交流的角度再論晚清小說翻譯。This thesis examines one late Qing Chinese translation of Gulliver’s Travels in 1906, namely Haiwai Xuanqulu 海外軒渠錄. The study focuses on how the literary devices of satire employed in the original text were rendered into Chinese by the late Qing translators. These devices include a narrative "persona" and the "imaginary voyage" structure. It is a challenging task for the translator to fully render these literary techniques into Chinese in late Qing period when the Western and Chinese literatures were remarkably different. Through detailed text comparison and analysis, we find that, influenced by Chinese literature tradition and late Qing translation practice, the translators made changes in translation in a way that the original satirical effect was not retained in the translated work. The translation also reflects in some degree the clash and dialogue between Western and Chinese literatures. This thesis aims to explore late Qing fiction translation from the perspective of literary transmission.
Detailed summary in vernacular field only.
季凌婕.
Thesis (M.Phil.) Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2014.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 84-93).
Abstracts also in Chinese.
Ji Lingjie.
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Wong, Margaret. ""The projecting species": Reading Swift's critique of the scientific project in Book 3 of "Gulliver's Travels"." Thesis, 1994. http://hdl.handle.net/1911/16792.
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Book 3 of Jonathan Swift's Travels into the Remote Nations of the World offers a thorough critique of the eighteenth-century scientific world--a world marked by systematization, theoretical speculation, stories of "progress," and innovation, which people have commonly embraced and into which the "modern" mind had unresistingly and perhaps unconsciously placed itself. Because Book 3 appears to indulge in a transparent attack on some specific eighteenth-century events, ridicule seems to be the primary device used to undermine the practices of the scientific community. However closer inspection reveals that Swift's satire is not grounded in the topical particulars of the Eighteenth Century, but addresses such general problems, such as moral deficiency, intellectual arrogance, tyranny, which are common to human experience. Moreover, his attack, not dependent upon ridicule, involves complex rhetorical strategies, including some subversive reader-indicting techniques that challenge and ultimately compel readers to take an active role in resolving the dilemma (intellectual, philosophical, moral, etc.) into which he has placed them. Thus the process of reading Book 3 makes the reader both an active supporter and sympathetic critic of scientific practices. The resulting tension is a primary contributor to the textual problems that have troubled the critics of Book 3 since the Travels first came out, but it is also what makes scrupulous attention to the text worthwhile.
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Chang, Shu-ling, and 張淑玲. "A Study on Teenagers’ Reading Reflection in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver's Travels and Its Application to English Teaching." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/85120186607047833664.
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Abstract This study aims to explore teenagers’ reading reflection in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver's Travels and to apply children’s literature to English teaching for EFL students in a junior high school classroom setting in central Taiwan. The study consists of six chapters. Chapter One includes five sections, which are motivation and background, purpose and significance of the study, major research questions, literature review, and organization of the study. The literature review section explores the benefits of children’s literature and the use of it in EFL classroom, and investigates content-based instruction and its application to language teaching. The three models proposed by Carter and Long (1991) are also employed in this study. The criteria of choosing appropriate children’s literature and the suitability of Gulliver's Travels as teaching material is also analyzed. In Chapter Two, the biography of Jonathan Swift and a brief illustration of Gulliver's Travels are first presented. In the brief examination of Gulliver's Travels section, the first voyage to Lilliput, the second voyage to Brobdingnag, the third voyage to Laputa and other Islands, and the fourth voyage to the land of the Houyhnhnms are illustrated. Finally, the last section of this chapter discusses the elements of satire in Gulliver's Travels. Chapter Three examines the feature and value of various literary passages and language elements in Gulliver's Travels. Consideration of their application to teaching is also presented. In Chapter Four, the details of the main study are presented, including the participants, the instruments, the data collection procedures, and the teaching procedures. In Chapter Five, comparative analysis of the responses in students’ pre-instructional and post-instructional questionnaires is included. Then, the results of the pre-test and the post-test for the comprehension of the reading texts are also presented. Finally, Chapter Six concludes the findings of this teaching experiment. In this final section, major findings of the study, recommendations and pedagogical implications, limitations of the study, and suggestions for further studies are discussed. Key words: children's literature, satire, Gulliver's Travels
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Hsu, Chia-chi, and 許嘉琪. "The analysis of the characterization and the process of adventure in young adult adventure novels:Exampled with Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver's Travels, and Treasure Island." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/9n26pk.
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兒童文學研究所
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Taking an adventure is human nature. A man discovers the meaning of his life and self-existence through the process of “ home–away- home”, so the motif of taking an adventure is deeply popular with the readers. In the development of literature, adventure story is the most ancient form of the novel. With exciting and tight plots, blazing characters and grotesque and uncommon incidents, adventure stories make strong appeal to the readers. After going through a series of ordeals, the protagonist can cast off his old self; at the same time, the reader remolds himself through reading. Robinson Crusoe, Gulliver's Travels, and Treasure Island are the adventure novels of the British Maritime Era in the eighteenth and nineteenth century. In these three novels, the adventures heroes taking are different. However, they share with a common motif: in order to get rid of certain situation, the protagonist goes outside to a new place searching for the meaning of life and comes back with victory in the end. A man desires to take an adventure because he wants new challenges and stimulus. Taking an adventure is the best way to find the value of self-existence. A man is ambivalent. He stays home to meet basic demand; he gets away home to find the meaning of life. Getting away home doesn’t deny the meaning of home; on the contrary, it manifests the importance of the home. For heroes, going outside to take adventures is necessary. But after the pursuit of the new value of living, they should come back their original homes.
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Cox, Philip. "The politics & poetics of Gulliver’s travel writing." Thesis, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/1828/11112.
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Working at the intersection of narrative studies and political theory, this thesis performs an original critical intervention in Gulliver’s Travels studies to establish the work as an intertextual response to the hegemonic articulations of European travel writing produced between the 15th and 18th centuries under the discourse of Discovery. My argument proceeds through two movements. First, an archeology of studies on Gulliver’s Travels that identifies key developments and points of significance in analyses of the satire’s intertextual relationship with travel writing. Second, a discursive analysis of the role of Discovery generally, and travel writing specifically, in constructing European hegemony within a newly global context. Together these movements allow me to locate Gulliver’s Travels firmly within the discourse of Discovery and to specify the politics of the text and the poetics of its operations. For this analysis I adopt a conceptualization of hegemony elaborated by Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe in Hegemony and Socialist Strategy (1985), which defines discourse as a structured totality of elements of signification, wherein the meaning and identify of each element is constituted by articulatory practices competing to fix the differences and equivalences between it and others within the discourse. An hegemonic discourse is one that successfully limits the possibility of novel articulations according to a particular governing logic. In the Age of Discovery, this governing logic, I argue, is a socio-spatial logic that constructed the “European” subject through its difference from the “Non-European,” the “civilized” subject through its difference from the “savage,” and the “free land” of the “savage” peoples through its difference from the occupied lands of the “civilized.” To conduct the concomitant critical analysis of Gulliver’s Travels, I draw upon Jacques Rancière’s conception of the “distribution of the sensible,” which refers both to the partitions determined in sensory experience that anticipate the distributions of parts and wholes, the orders of visibility and invisibility, and the relationships of address or comportment beneath every community; and to the specific practices that partake of these distributions to establish the “common sense” about the objects that make up the common world, the ways in which it is organized, and the capacities of the people within it. This enables me to establish travel writing as an articulatory practice that utilized a narrative modality to “reveal” the globe in a Eurocentric image dependent upon the logic of Discovery: a discursively constructed paradigm that I identify as what others have labeled “travel realism,” which organized the globe into a single field of discursivity predicated upon the “civilizational” and “rational” superiority of Europeans over their non-European Others. Gulliver’s Travels, I conclude, intervenes in this distribution of the sensible by utilizing the satirical form as a recomposing logic to upend the paradigm of travel realism and break away from the “sense” that it makes of the bodies, beings, and lands it re-presents.Graduate
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Neimann, Paul Grafton. "Mechanical operations of the spirit : the Protestant object in Swift and Defoe." Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2010-12-2220.
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This study revises a dominant narrative of the eighteenth-century, in which a secular modernity emerges in opposition to religious belief. It argues that a major challenge for writers such as Jonathan Swift and Daniel Defoe, and for English subjects generally, was to grasp the object world--including the modern technological object--in terms of its spiritual potential. I identify disputes around the liturgy and common prayer as a source of a folk psychology concerning mental habits conditioned by everyday interactions with devotional and cultural objects. Swift and Defoe therefore confront even paradigmatically modern forms (from trade items to scientific techniques) as a spiritual ecology, a network of new possibilities for practical piety and familiar forms of mental-spiritual illness. Texts like A Tale of a tub (1704) and Robinson Crusoe (1719) renew Reformation ideals for the laity by evaluating technologies for governing a nation of souls. Swift and Defoe's Protestantism thus appears as an active guide to understanding emotions and new experience rather than a static body of doctrine. Current historiography neglects the early modern sense that sectarian objects and rituals not only discipline religious subjects, but also provoke ambivalence and anxiety: Swift's Tale diagnoses Catholic knavery and Puritan hypocrisy as neurotic attempts to extract pleasure from immiserating styles of material praxis. Crusoe, addressed to more radical believers in spaces of trade, sees competent spiritual, scientific and commercial practice on the same plane, as techniques for overcoming fetishistic desires. Swift's orthodoxy of enforced moderation and Defoe's oddly worldly piety represent likeminded formulae for psychic reform, and not--as often alleged--conflicts between sincere belief and political or commercial interests. Gulliver's travels (1726) and A Journal of the plague year (1722) also link mind and governance through different visions of Protestant polity. Swift sees alienation from the national church--figured by a Crusoe or Gulliver--as refusal of common sense and problem solving. Defoe points to religious schism, exemplified by dissenters' exclusion from state church statistics, as a moral and medical failure: the city risks creating selfish citizens who also may overlook data needed to combat the plague.text
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Gertken, Matthew Charles. "Jonathan Swift, Sir William Temple and the international balance of power." 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/2152/23023.
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This dissertation investigates the balance of power theory of international relations in the works of Jonathan Swift and his mentor Sir William Temple. Both Temple and Swift are known to have championed balance-of-power foreign policy, yet no sustained study of the subject exists. To begin, I argue that Temple used balance as a metaphor for division or separation. His policy of preserving the “Balance of Christendom” translates to sowing division among European states, and for the same reason he rejects balance of power at home. Proceeding to Swift, while commentators have long known that he advocated the classical theory of constitutional balance, they have neglected his engagement with international balance. Swift assimilates Temple’s positions into a universal theory based on classical authors; he sees balance of power as an element in the broader quarrel of ancients and moderns. The ancient view posits an independent agent who operates within the constraints of a system; the modern, by contrast, either exaggerates agency to the point of divine-right absolutism or minimizes it to the extent that only an impersonal, clockwork-like system remains. In both cases, the moderns pursue material power at each other’s expense, neglecting the intangible benefits of due separation. This theory has important ramifications for Swift’s international writings. For years scholars have emphasized Swift’s conspiracy theorizing in the Conduct of the Allies, but I argue that he discredits the Whig war cry of “Balance of Europe,” which sought military power (the balance of forces) as an end in itself, and reasserts balance as a policy of slicing Europe into as many separate kingdoms as possible. Ultimately, however, Swift’s most lasting contribution appears in Gulliver’s Travels. Here he depicts maritime power as the quintessential means by which moderns pursue absolute power, and intimates a political “Balance of Earth” as a satirical correction. This study, the first to focus on the international dimension of Swift’s political theory, offers a corrective to literary studies that favor domestic politics and yields insights into the evolution of balance-of-power theory and the intersection of culture and foreign policy at the dawn of the British empire.text
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Lee, I.-Ting, and 李宜庭. "Swift’s Travels beyond Children’s Literature: A Generic Study of Gulliver’s Travels." Thesis, 2011. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/22087380089955945417.
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碩士中興大學
外國語文學系所
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This thesis is a generic study of Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels. It aims to point out that Gulliver’s Travels is a unique example of Swift’s swift shift from children’s literature to satire, that is, from a children’s genre to an adults’ genre. In the introductory chapter, Swift’s life and works are briefly mentioned. Noted particularly are the facts, among others, that Swift seems to lack a memorable childhood, that he traveled constantly between Ireland and England and got involved in the political and religious affairs of the two nations, and that his greatest achievement lies in his writing, especially in his prose satire as seen in Gulliver’s Travels. The second chapter defines children’s literature, discusses its subgenres, and enumerates its characteristics, besides defining satire, discussing its types, and considering its characteristic contrasts with children’s literature. Based on the greatest contrasts, that is, the fanciful content and the playful tone of children’s literature versus the factual content and the painful tone of satire, the third chapter provides a detailed discussion of Gulliver’s four voyages to the “wonderlands.” In the fourth chapter, then, the focus is on how Swift “travels” beyond children’s literature. Four adaptations of Swift’s original Gulliver’s Travels are introduced: the Longman Edition, the Macmillan/Bookman Edition, the Oxford Edition, and the Penguin Edition. Such adaptations are all simplified and abridged versions intended for children. They reveal Swift’s potential for children’s literature. They also show Swift’s swift shift from the potential to his talented genre, satire. The thesis concludes in the fifth chapter that Gulliver’s Travels demonstrates Swift’s uniqueness in the postmodern tendency towards “hibridity”: he succeeds in making Gulliver’s Travels a great hybrid, combining the fantastic and amusing in children’s literature with the factual and instructive in adults’ literature. That is why the work is more popular than Robinson Crusoe and Candide.
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Wang, An-Qi, and 王安琪. "Gulliver''s travels and Ching-hua yuan revisited." Thesis, 1991. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/61537429865377109205.
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Wu, Tzu-Yen, and 吳姿燕. "A Comparative Study on Two Chinese Versions of Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels." Thesis, 2013. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/87547016670851023832.
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碩士長榮大學
翻譯學系碩士在職專班
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This research paper is aimed to investigate and compare the two translated Chinese versions of Gulliver’s Travels by employing the translation theory of foreignization and domestication by Lawrence Venuti. The two Chinese versions are “Gulliver’s Travels”, published by Lingking Publishing in 2004 and the “Gulliver’s Travels”, published by SITAK Group in 2000. This research paper is categorized into 5 chapters. Chapter 3 is dedicated to studying the translation strategies and Chapter 4 the translation techniques. Each of Chapter 3 and Chapter 4 are followed by two sub-chapters. Each of chapter 3 and Chapter 4 contains 5 sub-categories, including the tone of speaking, domestication, foreignization, amplification, context, false translation, omission, order of words, and professional phrases, total of 10 sub-categories in Chapter 3 and Chapter 4. The purpose is to study in-depth the process of translation, the intervention of translators, the influence of different translation strategies adopted, and the translation techniques employed. By studying in depth the two Chinese versions, it is hoped that this research paper will make a contribution to probe the complexity of the Chinese translated texts of Gulliver’s Travels for future studies.
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Chueh, Di-feng, and 闕帝丰. "Away from Home:Travel, Nationality, and Identity Crisis in Gulliver''s Travels and Robinson Crusoe." Thesis, 2005. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/65073919435041778196.
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碩士國立中山大學
外國語文學系研究所
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The aim of this thesis is to understand the presentations of characters’ identity problems in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels and Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe in relation to their respective genre and to see how the presentations reflect the social ambience and the cultural development in eighteenth-century England. This thesis consists of five chapters. In chapter one, I will briefly summarize the social conditions in eighteenth-century England. This summary of social conditions will show eighteenth-century England as a society of conflicts and contrasts between old and new values. Two key words here, old and new values, will allude to the development of literary genres in eighteenth-century England. Novel is a term which first appears around this time in the history of literary writing and which refers to a new type of genre. As people have varieties of life styles, so do authors have a new genre to work with. However, this newness, either in a social or cultural context, coexists with the old values. In the context of literary writing, the novel, as a genre, has to compete and cooperate with one of its precursors, the genre of satire. In chapter two, I will try to understand the relationship between novel and satire in the light of another genre, utopia. Even though the utopian element in satire is a counterpoint, meaning the dystopian stance, of utopian traditions, there still is a strong sense of community in satirical writings. Compared with satire, the sense of individuals is the core of the genre of the novel. Realism, marked by Ian Watt, is a new trend in novel writing and it is highly connected with the idea of individualism instead of the sense of community. In order to see this difference, Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels and Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe are the two texts that I will use in chapter three and four for detailed discussions. As for the second part of chapter two, I try to single out the idea of travel with the intention to see its importance in eighteen-century England. In chapters three and four, my concern turns to characters’ identity problems in the two travel narratives: Gulliver’s Travels and Robinson Crusoe. Compared with each other, the characters of the two travel narratives have different identity problems and this difference is important in the way of symbolizing the different concerns of each genre: satire for a sense of community and novel for individualism. Moreover, in terms of the different endings in the two travel narratives, Gulliver and Crusoe’s experiences of their identity problems also suggest an important social condition, which is the different possibilities of life, in eighteenth-century England. In conclusion, I will give an overall review of the whole thesis.
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陳英琪 and 陳英琪. "Diverting Reading and Dialectical Reflection: Travel Narratives of Fantasy and Allegory in Jonathan Swift''s Gulliver''s Travels and Li Ju-chen''s Flowers in the Mirror." Thesis, 1999. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/80830528274115283959.
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碩士靜宜大學
英國語文學系
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This present thesis is a comparative study of Jonathan Swift''s Gulliver''s Travels (1726) and Li Ju-chen''s Flowers in the Mirror (1820). Both works, though written respectively by English and Chinese writer, are similar in their form s of travel narrative, fantasy, and allegory. Based on Wolfgang Iser''s Reader''s Response Theory, this thesis concentrates on how both Jonathan Swift and Li Ju-chen manipulate the travel narrative with fantasy and allegory. Their deliberate calculation on their implied readers has thus been closely examined and in some respects treated tentatively. Applying Iser''s theory primarily, I assemble some critics'' researches to exhibit the interrelationship concerning the form of travel narrative, fantasy, and allegory in both works comparatively with the aim of understanding how these particular textual forms of the two literary works are related and affect the implied reader. What I have done in this thesis is to proffer a profile of similar reading potentiality in the forms of travel narrative, fantasy, and allegory. This present thesis consists of five chapters. In the introduction I give an overview of Iser''s Reader''s Response Theory. Iser considers the literary text as a potential structure that is concretized by the reader in relation to his or her extra-literary norms, values, and experience. What is presented in Chapter Two is the postulation that both Swift''s and Li Ju-chen''s adoption of travel narrative serves their works with double functions: one is travel as a metaphor of thought; the other, the establishment of possible worlds in fictionality. In Chapter Three I approach the genre of fantasy by mustering some Western and Chinese critics'' research on the aesthetic function of fantasy. On the whole, they accentuate that fantasy contains the aesthetic effect of wonder that can entice readers to exercise their imagination. To capture readers'' interest, both Swift and Li Ju-chen tincture their travel narrative with legend or fairy-tale. I apply Max Luthi''s theory to point out the characteristic embodiment of folk-literature in both Swift''s and Li Ju-chen''s travel narratives. Chapter Four deals with the form of allegory. Both Swift and Li Ju-chen utilize the literary tactic of fantasy to create indeterminate fictional worlds that set readers in an active performance of meaning-formulation. From this angle, Gulliver''s Travels and Flowers in the Mirror can be termed as allegories. Accordingly, I point out three possible implications and interpretations of allegory. In the conclusion I recapitulate that the forms of travel narrative, fantasy, and allegory are gifted with a distinctive similarity. They can not only generate readers'' interest in reading but also elicit readers'' response to the matters encompassed within the literary texts. In fact, these three forms are intimately connected. It is the very framework of travel narrative that furthers and enhances the forms of fantasy and allegory. The excellent merit that both works have in common is a wide spectrum of indeterminacy that liberates readers'' potential reading. The imaginative greatness of both works is the elaboration of the possibility that there may be numerous directions to approach the marrow of their contents. Seen in this light, both Swift''s and Li Ju-chen''s artistic stratagems in designing their literary works as travel narratives of fantasy and allegory correspond to Iser''s theory that each literary work should be a form of communication.
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貝業明. "Utopian Speculation in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels and Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court and Its Application to English Teaching." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/22732011519596789978.
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碩士國立彰化師範大學
英語學系
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This thesis aims to explore western utopian speculation in Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels and Mark Twain’s A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court. Both these novels survey the possibilities of realizing utopia and the predicaments that utopists have to face. The other objective is to apply utopian issues in Gulliver’s Travels to the EFL classroom in junior high school in Taiwan. The whole thesis is divided into five chapters. Chapter One explains that now it is more suitable than before to teach literature in junior high school and that utopian speculation is worth introducing to junior high students, because exploring this issue can make them more concern about their society and country, and help them cultivate their citizenship. The born aspiration for better life crystallizes into different ideal phases that reveal the diversified social problems of the time. The types of ideal life evolve from simple to complex, from the satisfaction of desires to the fulfillment of ideal social structure, such as good institutions, just laws, preferable customs and even egalitarianism. Chapter Two discusses the differences between utopia and other types of ideal life. Utopia is not like the Golden Age and Millenarianism that are bestowed by God. It is usually achieved by human design and effort, intends to revolutionize the social, economic, political or religious systems. But its reforming plans are often one-dimensional and naïve. As a result, utopian literature is just for consoling. Gulliver’s Travels and A Connecticut Yankee both inherit these features from Thomas More’s Utopia and Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis, but they have differences in terms of the following points: Gulliver’s Travels expresses explicit and positive attitude toward utopia, while A Connecticut Yankee, ambiguous one toward utopia; the former praises technologically primitive utopia, while the latter prefers technologically advanced utopia; and the former longs for the past simpler and more natural England, while the latter intends to civilize and modernize Arthurian England. Chapter Three explains satire, which is the most conspicuous feature of utopian literature. Satire and utopia are nearly born with each other: utopia aims to establish a norm, a standard of excellence, against which folly and vice are judged; satire attacks folly and vice. Chapter Three shows its use in Gulliver’s Travels and in A Connecticut Yankee, and the device of inversion to achieve satire. Chapter Four provides the analysis of the application of Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels to English teaching, including appropriateness of Gulliver’s Travels as a teaching material and its research design. Questionnaires were used in order to investigate their opinions on applying the novel and its utopian issues to English teaching. Chapter Five is concerned about the results and discussion of the teaching experiment. The results show that the participants are interested in the utopian speculation and consider that studying fictional work indeed promotes their English learning. In general speaking, Gulliver’s Travels is appropriate for students’ learning in terms of language and content. It is beneficial for students in cultural enrichment, language learning, and personal growth. Major finding, limitation of the study, and suggestions for further study are also proposed here.