题目（英文） On the Writing Techniques of Gulliver's Travels
题目（中文） 浅谈格列佛游记的写作手法
Abstract
In 1726, Gulliver’s Travels was first published and was all sold out in one week. Till now, it has passed several centuries after its first appearance and it is translated in decades of languages. People all over the world are reading it. In China, it is very popular and has been listed into books which the new curriculum standards require junior high school students to read. According to the novel, Jonathan Swift describes a fantastic travel story in which the protagonist Gulliver experiences a lot strange and absurd things and meets lots of strange people and animals. Swift enriches the work’s morality by using humor, reveals absurd by means of satire, and makes the incredible things to be reality according to characters and narrative framework. Since Gulliver’s Travels’ published, it has been learned by many scholars for hundreds of years from different aspects. Based on the previous studies, this thesis explores the writing techniques of Gulliver’s travels from the aspects of literature and language according to analyzing its narrative methods, rhetoric and language.
Keywords writing techniques; Gulliver’s Travels; literature; language
Contents
Abstract I
Contents I
1. Introduction ...2
1.1 Introduction of Jonathan Swift........................................................................2
1.2 Introduction of the Main Content of Gulliver's Travels..................................2
2. Writing Techniques of Gulliver's Travels from the Aspect of Literature. 4
2.1 Changing Narrative Perspective......................................................................4
2.2 Applying Exaggeration....................................................................................4
2.2.1 Exaggeration of Number........................................................................................4
2.2.2 Exaggeration of Proportion....................................................................................5
3. Writing Techniques of Gulliver's Travels from the Aspect of Language. 6
3.1 Calligraphy of Lilliput.....................................................................................6
3.2 Style of Prose in Brobdingnag.........................................................................6
3.3 Word-formation of Laputa...............................................................................6
3.4 Language of Houyhnhnms..............................................................................7
4. Conclusion 8
References 9
