Gulliver's Travels

[Dave Monroe]

Reminds me of a friend getting her Edumacation degree.
 Her couple-dozen title strong reading list for a
"Childrens' Literature" course began with Don Quixote
(which, MAYBE in these days of those increasingly
massive Harry Potter books, SOME kids might again have
the patience for) and ended up somehere ca. Moby-Dick
(again ...).  Gulliver's Travels was along the way,
but I'm going to have to check back to make sure I'm
correct in saying that Gargantua and Pantagruel
appeared as well.  But given the way things are going,
I'm not all too sure Gravity's Rainbow might suffer
(?) the same fate as well one day ...  

By the way, on "Depression Literature," why NOT Dos
Passos was my question as well, but apparently a
matter of mass, maybe even attention span, as well. 
But I'm kicking myself for not thinking of Algren. 
Nathanael West? Henry Roth's Call it Sleep?  Sinclair
Lewis, It Can't Happen Here?  But I'm really thrown
for a loss at the international, "comparative" level. 
It's one thing just to some up with works published
during the era, but something clearly "of" the
Depression ...


--- Mark David Tristan Brenchley
<mdtb at st-andrews.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, David Simpson wrote:
> 
> > In a recent post Dave Monroe referred to:
> > 
> > >the thinly veiled allusions to contemporay
> figures, events, and
> > problems in Swift's Gulliver's Travels (which was
> apparently so
> > potentially incendiary that it was
> > published anonymously)<
> > 
> > But Gulliver's Travels wasn't published
> "anonymously." It was published
> > "pseudonymously." It was all part of a joke to
> make the book appear
> > (well, at least for a page or two) like authentic
> travel literature,
> > which was extremely popular at the time. The
> actual title was not
> > "Gulliver's Travels," but "Travels to Several
> Remote Regions of the
> > World." And its putative author was Lemuel
> Gulliver, Captain, HMN.
> 
> 	TO be honest, I think the biggest jokes on Swift.
> Wrote a
> seething work of invective designed to change the
> world, and ended up
> writing one of the most popular children's books of
> all time. Go figure.
> But on a modern note, if you like Swift then check
> out the recent work of
> Chris Morris, god's gift to comedy.
> 
> MArk 
> 
> > 
> > 
> > --
> > "For every journey there's a point beyond which it
> makes no sense to
> > turn back. That point is your destination." --
> Kafka.
> > -------
> > homepage: http://www.depaul.edu/~dsimpson
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 


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