EN 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Satire, Seditious Libel, Geoffrey Chaucer
22 Dec 2016
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En 1001 worksheet 6 - reading gulliver"s travels. The readings this week are from jonathan swift"s satire gulliver"s travels. Although the language is closer to us than that of chaucer, you may still find many of the references and wording difficult to understand. This worksheet will help you explore what swift is doing in this famous text, and what literary conventions and techniques he is using, with particular focus on frame narrative and satire: The publisher to the reader and a letter from captain gulliver to his cousin sympson concern how the book is framed for the readers of the time. Chapters one and six are both from a voyage to lilliput, which is part one of gulliver"s. We are reading these chapters to see how swift uses satire. Baldick defines a frame narrative as a story in which another story is enclosed or embedded as a.
