The Power of Words in Swift's Gulliver's Travels

Philosophie & littérature   |   Littérature   |   Exposé   |   25/07/2007   |   en   |   .doc   |   8 pages
Extrait du document : « hidden words-. The Power of Words in Swift's Gulliver's Travels "Words have no legs, yet they walk" (Malian proverb). What is the ...»

Extrait du sommaire : «The power of language and of communication in the novel -that is, spoken words. The strength of Gulliver's Travels as a book -explicitly, as a combination of written words. The universality of Swift's great novel. The power of Swift's own words...»

Truth in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels

Philosophie & littérature   |   Littérature   |   Exposé   |   16/04/2008   |   en   |   .doc   |   5 pages
Extrait du document : « But the Houyhnhnms Master's words address an important It is likewise in the power of the Mass.: Peter Smith, 1963 R. GRAVIL (ed.), Swift: Gulliver's Travels. ...»

Extrait du sommaire : «Seemingly realistic (true-to-life) and fictitious (inexistent) elements alike are fused together into a larger, consistently structured whole. Debate about truth and fiction. What "truth" means to Gulliver. The text has one specific...»