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  2. Politics vs. Literature - Wikipedia

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    Politics vs. Literature: An Examination of Gulliver's Travels" is a critical essay published in 1946 by the English author George Orwell. The essay is a review of Gulliver's Travels with a discussion of its author Jonathan Swift. The essay first appeared in Polemic No 5 in September 1946.

  3. Gulliver's Travels - Wikipedia

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    Gulliver's Travels, originally 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 1726 prose satire [1] [2] by the Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift, satirising both human nature and the "travellers' tales" literary subgenre.

  4. Jonathan Swift - Wikipedia

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    A 2017 analysis of library holdings data revealed that Swift is the most popular Irish author, and that Gulliver's Travels is the most widely held work of Irish literature in libraries globally. [64] The first woman to write a biography of Swift was Sophie Shilleto Smith, who published Dean Swift in 1910. [65] [66]

  5. Houyhnhnm - Wikipedia

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    Book IV of Gulliver's Travels is the keystone, in some ways, of the entire work, [citation needed] and critics have traditionally answered the question whether Gulliver is insane (and thus just another victim of Swift's satire) by questioning whether or not the Houyhnhnms are truly admirable.

  6. Cultural influence of Gulliver's Travels - Wikipedia

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    Saban’s Gulliver’s Travels: A 26 episode long cartoon adaptation of the book produced by Saban Entertainment and Saban International Paris, which aired from September 8, 1992 to June 29, 1993. Gulliver's Travels was produced by Golden Films. This is an animated short version of the story and is part of a larger series known as "Enchanted ...

  7. Critical lens - Wikipedia

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    A critical lens is a way of looking at a particular work of literature ... It is a common literary analysis technique. [1 ... in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, ...

  8. Yahoo (Gulliver's Travels) - Wikipedia

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    The American frontiersman Daniel Boone, who often used terms from Gulliver's Travels, claimed that he killed a hairy giant that he called a Yahoo. [4] The fictitious country of Yahoo was the setting for Bertolt Brecht's 1936 play Round Heads and Pointed Heads. Yahoo was used as a cry of elation in a song from the 1961 Hindi film Junglee. [5]

  9. Lemuel Gulliver - Wikipedia

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    Hungarian writer Frigyes Karinthy reused Gulliver as the protagonist of two novels recounting his further travels, Voyage to Faremido (1916) and Capillaria (1921). Both stay true to the character as a surgeon with a wife and children, but transpose their plot (and retroactively Gulliver's four earlier travels) to the then-contemporary years leading up to, during, and after World War I.