Jonathan Swift
Los viajes de Gulliver (1726) es una novela satírica de Jonathan Swift. Presentándose como el "Dr. Lemuel Gulliver", pretendió divulgar sus viajes en los que se encuentra con una serie de culturas extrañas. Este estilo literario de la divulgación de viajes era común en ese entonces, incluyendo la invención de culturas extrañas y "salvajes", diseñadas deliberadamente para remover las conciencias de los británicos de la época. El viaje
...Gulliver's Travels (1726, amended 1735), officially Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of several Ships, is a novel by Jonathan Swift that is both a satire on human nature and a parody of the "travellers' tales" literary sub-genre. It is Swift's best known full-length work, and a classic of English literature.
Gullivers Reisen ist das bekannteste Werk des irischen Schriftstellers, anglikanischen Priesters und Politikers Jonathan Swift. In der Originalfassung besteht das Buch aus vier Teilen und wurde 1726 unter dem Titel Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World in Four Parts By Lemuel Gulliver, first a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships veröffentlicht. Bekannt ist insbesondere die zweiteilige Kinderbuchausgabe, in welcher Gulliver
...I viaggi di Gulliver o Viaggi di Gulliver in vari paesi lontani del mondo è un romanzo che coniuga fantasia e satira in un'allegoria dell'Inghilterra e della Francia settecentesca nonché nell'animo umano, scritto sotto pseudonimo da Jonathan Swift.
L'opera s'inserisce, in chiave parodistica, anche nel genere letterario "utopistico", iniziato proprio in Inghilterra nel Rinascimento con Tommaso Moro che nel suo capolavoro, il romanzo L'Utopia,
A Meditation Upon a Broomstick is a satire and parody written by Jonathan Swift in 1701. Edmund Curll, in an attempt to antagonize and siphon off money from Swift, published it in 1710 from a manuscript stolen from Swift (which forced Swift to publish a corrected and authorized version that he also had to write from memory), but the satire's origins lie in Swift's time at Moor Park, Surrey, when he acted as Secretary to William
...In 1712, the English language, according to the satirist Jonathan Swift, was in chaos. He outlined his complaints in this public letter to Robert Harley, leader of the government, proposing the appointment of experts to advise on English use. The model was to be based on that of the Académie Française, which had been regulating the French language since 1634. His proposal, like all the others he made, came to nothing. To this day no official
...Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting is the title of a satirical essay by Jonathan Swift. It also has appeared under the title Thoughts on Various Subjects. It consists of a series of short epigrams or apothegms with no particular connections between them.
It contains the quotation "When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against
...A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland From Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Public, commonly referred to as A Modest Proposal, is a Juvenalian satirical essay written and published anonymously by Jonathan Swift in 1729. Swift suggests in his essay that the impoverished Irish might ease their economic troubles by selling children as food for rich gentlemen
...More than just a mock travel book and fabulous adventure, Gulliver’s Travels is a character study and social satire that skewers politics, science,
...Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift is a witty and insightful satirical novel recounts the history of Lemuel Gulliver, "First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of several Ships". In his travels Gulliver visits the Land of Lilliput, where he towers over the local inhabitants, the land of Brobdingnag where he is much smaller than the citizens, the floating island of Laputa, infested with fanatical scientists who in their obsession with reason
...An Argument against Abolishing Christianity / Jonathan Swift
"An Argument to Prove that the Abolishing of Christianity in England May, as Things Now Stand Today, be Attended with Some Inconveniences, and Perhaps not Produce Those Many Good Effects Proposed Thereby, commonly referred to as An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity, is a satirical essay by Jonathan Swift defending Christianity, and in particular, Anglicanism,
...The Battle of the Books / Jonathan Swift
""The Battle of the Books" is the name of a short satire written by Jonathan Swift and published as part of the prolegomena to his A Tale of a Tub in 1704. It depicts a literal battle between books in the King's Library (housed in St James's Palace at the time of the writing), as ideas and authors struggle for supremacy. Because of the satire, "The Battle of the
...The Bickerstaff-Partridge Papers / Jonathan Swift
"The Bickerstaff-Partridge Papers by Jonathan Swift "Isaac Bickerstaff Esq" was a pseudonym used by Jonathan Swift as part of a hoax to predict the death of then famous Almanac-maker and astrologer John Partridge. Wherein the month, and day of the month are set down, the persons named, and the great actions and events of next year particularly related, as will come to pass.
...Hints towards an essay on conversation / Jonathan Swift
"This is a brief essay from Jonathan Swift about the best way to have a conversation. It's mentioned in Stephen Miller's "Conversation: A History of a Declining Art," and may be used as a companion to that book." (Wikipedia)
A Journal to Stella is a work by Jonathan Swift first partly published posthumously in 1766.
It consists of 65 letters to his friend, Esther Johnson, whom he called Stella and whom he may have secretly married. They were written between 1710 and 1713, from various locations in England, and though clearly intended for Stella's eyes were sometimes addressed to her companion Rebecca Dingley.
Amongst the references
..."The Lady's Dressing Room" is a poem written by Jonathan Swift first published in 1732. In the poem, Strephon sneaks into his sweetheart Celia's dressing room while she is away only to become disillusioned at how filthy and smelly it is. Swift uses this poem to satirize both women's vain attempts to match an ideal image and men's expectation that the illusion be real. (Source: Wikipedia)
20) A Tale of a Tub
A Tale of a Tub was the first major work written by Jonathan Swift, arguably his most difficult satire and perhaps his most masterly. The Tale is a prose parody divided into sections each delving into the morals and ethics of the English. Composed between 1694 and 1697, it was eventually published in 1704. A satire on the Roman Catholic and Anglican churches and English Dissenters, it was famously attacked for its profanity and
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