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- Title: Utopia, Dystopia Or Anti-Utopia? Gulliver's Travels and the Utopian Mode of Discourse (Critical Essay)
- Author : Utopian Studies
- Release Date : January 22, 2007
- Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 214 KB
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Should his tall tales of marvellous voyages, newly discovered peoples, and fantastic societies be insufficient to call Thomas More's Utopia (1516), and utopian writings in general, to his reader's mind, "Lemuel Gulliver" refers to Utopia directly in a letter to his cousin printed with the second edition (1735) of his Travels into Several Remote Nations of the Worm (familiarly know as Gulliver's Travels): The joke here is obviously on the naive reader, and underlines that the primary feature shared by the Houyhnhnms, Yahoos, and Utopians is their fictionality. If it is to be inferred from this feature that the Houyhnhnms and Yahoos are similar to More's Utopians in any other way, then the comparison does little to help the reader (naive or otherwise) learn more about Swift's imagined peoples. More's Utopians, like the text which described them, are "shrouded in ambiguity," which nearly five hundred years of interpretation have yet to dispel (Manuel and Manuel 5). The reason for this is of course that ambiguity is integral to More's text, as recent criticism has recognised. (1) So, Swift's likening of his own invented people to those of Thomas More is more than a tongue-in-cheek aside; it serves to remind us that ambiguity and irony have always been a feature of the utopian mode of discourse.
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