Essays about: "Gulliver s Travels"

Found 2 essays containing the words Gulliver s Travels.

1. 1. "Let me Deal so Candidly with the Reader": A Study of the Unnatural Spaces and Narrators of Gulliver’s Travels and the Discworld

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Engelska; Lunds universitet/Masterprogram: Litteratur - Kultur – Media

   Author : Atli Sigurdsson; [2016]
   Keywords : Discworld; Gulliver s Travels; Terry Pratchett; Jonathan Swift; Fantasy; Narratology; Unnatural Narrative Theory; City Watch; Languages and Literatures;

   Abstract : Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels and Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novels set in Ankh-Morpork are similar enough that both can be treated as belonging to the subgenre of comic fantasy. The narratives foreground the fantastic, written to entertain and amuse its readers but also contain societal criticism in the form of satire or parody. READ MORE

3. 2. Comedy Gold : How Humour is Used as Social Criticism in Terry Pratchett’s Making Money

   University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur

   Author : Robin Kjellberg; [2014]
   Keywords : Satire; Pratchett; Making Money; Social Criticism;

   Abstract : Abstract Pratchett‟s absence from being mentioned in the same breath as great satirists such as Swift, Chaucer or Dryden to mention a few, could be because Pratchett‟s choice of genre is fantasy which is, by many, considered a „lesser‟ genre. One can wonder though in what ways the imagined nations and peoples of the Discworld series differ from some of the encounters made by Gulliver in Swift‟s Gulliver’s Travels. READ MORE