Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift

2014 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 40-42
Author(s):  
Ashley Marshall
Keyword(s):  
Jonathan Swift ◽  
Gulliver's Travels

The First Globalization Debate: Crusoe vs. Gulliver

2011 ◽  
pp. 107-125
Author(s):  
Craufurd D. Goodwin
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
Common Sense ◽  
World Economy ◽  
Daniel Defoe ◽  
Jonathan Swift ◽  
Gains From Trade ◽  
Robinson Crusoe ◽  
Adventure Story ◽  
Gulliver's Travels

Two of the earliest novels in English, Robinson Crusoe (1719) by Daniel Defoe and Gulliver's Travels (1726) by Jonathan Swift, are widely perceived as an entertaining adventure story and a pioneering work of science fiction. Viewed by modern economists, however, they appear as expressions of opposing positions on the desirability of integration within a world economy. Crusoe demonstrated the gains from trade and colonization and the attendant social and political benefits. By contrast, Swift warned of complex entanglements that would arise from globalization, especially with foreign leaders who operated from theory and models rather than common sense.

scholarly journals The Representation of Jonathan Swift’s Human and Non-human Animals in Spain

2020 ◽  
pp. 20-30
Author(s):  
Alberto Lázaro-Lafuente ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
English Literature ◽  
Jonathan Swift ◽  
The Other ◽  
Gulliver's Travels ◽  
The World ◽  
Animal World

Gulliver’s Travels (1726), by Jonathan Swift, is one of the classics of English literature, a biting satire of English customs and politics in particular and of human foibles in general. While literary scholars have traditionally agreed that, in Part IV of Gulliver’s Travels, Swift uses his elegant anthropomorphic horses and his filthy human-like Yahoos to reflect on society and human nature, some recent studies highlight Swift’s ecocritical concern with animal issues, focusing on how the behaviour of the noble horses challenges the conventional hierarchies of the anthropocentric view of the world and anticipates values that are prominent in today’s society. However, this article aims to show that what has traditionally challenged and disturbed readers, publishers and critics for many years is the presence of the other race of the animal world, the Yahoos. Analysing the reception of Gulliver’s journey to the land of the Houyhnhnms helps understand how Swift’s early ecocritical ideas disturbed publishers and translators, who often rejected or modified the text, particularly those passages in which the filthy human-like Yahoos show their harsh and scatological behaviour.

“Gulliver’s Travels”: Jonathan Swift, ed. by Pierre Morère

2002 ◽  
Vol 35 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 87-88
Author(s):  
Françoise Deconinck-Brossard
Keyword(s):  
Jonathan Swift ◽  
Gulliver's Travels

scholarly journals Hibridismo linguístico e a simulação temporal em reescritas de Gulliver’s Travels, de Jonathan Swift

Entrepalavras ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 133
Author(s):  
Jacqueline Dos Santos Pratas ◽  
Lauro Maia Amorim
Keyword(s):  
Jonathan Swift ◽  
Gulliver's Travels

Neste artigo analisam-se duas traduções e uma adaptação de Gulliver’s Travels, de Jonathan Swift, obra orginalmente escrita no século XVIII, com o objetivo de observar se o emprego da norma padrão poderia ser um instrumento que auxilie na produção de um efeito de distanciamento temporal derivado de seleções lexicais e da adoção de estruturas linguísticas determinadas que atenderiam à representação semântica, sintática e estilística desse distanciamento. Constatou-se, com os resultados da análise, que, de fato, os tradutores lançaram mão do uso estratégico de determinadas seleções lexicais e estruturas gramaticais que evocam o efeito de distanciamento temporal, mas, em algumas das versões analisadas, observou-se também o emprego híbrido concomitante de construções linguísticas mais próximas de um certo registro informal, especialmente no caso da adaptação voltada para o público juvenil.

scholarly journals Análisis textual y contraste interlingüístico. La traducción de la conjunción en Los viajes de Gulliver de J. Swift

2017 ◽  
pp. 23
Author(s):  
Isabel García Izquierdo
Keyword(s):  
Jonathan Swift ◽  
Gulliver's Travels ◽  
Sobre Todo

Las recientes investigaciones en el campo de la Traductología han destacado la importancia de los enfoques comunicativos para explicar el acto traductor. Entre estos enfoques, ocupa un lugar preeminente, desde el punto de vista lingüístico, el llamado Enfoque textual. Desde esta perspectiva, es innegable la importancia decisiva que el texto de partida (sus convenciones textuales y contextuales) y las condiciones de producción de éste tendrán en la configuración del producto traducido. De ahí el interés fundamental de los estudios contrastivos para el analista de la traducción. Sólo con un buen conocimiento de cómo funcionan las citadas convenciones en las lenguas estudiadas y, sobre todo, teniendo en cuenta los resultados que puede ofrecernos el contraste interlingüístico, podremos responder de manera adecuada a los problemas planteados por la equivalencia comunicativa. El presente trabajo reflexiona sobre la traducción del inglés al español de uno de los mecanismos cohesivos más significativos: la conjunción. El análisis se lleva a cabo utilizando las versiones traducidas al español (1977, 1987, 1997 y 1997AN) del Gulliver’s Travels, de Jonathan Swift, y el propósito es mostrar que las propuestas ofrecidas no siempre responden a cuestiones relacionadas con los sistemas lingüísticos implicados (que, obviamente, también serán responsables de algunas de las soluciones), sino que, en muchas ocasiones, resultan de la adecuación a las convenciones contextuales y a la funcionalidad, por tanto, del producto en la lengua meta.  

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