Inescapable Bodies, Disquieting Perception: Why Adults Seek to Tame and Harness Swift's Excremental Satire in "Gulliver's Travels"

Autor/in	Stallcup, Jackie E.
Titel	Inescapable Bodies, Disquieting Perception: Why Adults Seek to Tame and Harness Swift's Excremental Satire in "Gulliver's Travels"
Quelle	In: Children's Literature in Education, 35 (2004) 2, S.87-111 (25 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0045-6713
DOI	10.1023/B:CLID.0000030318.48913.bb
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Satire; Childrens Literature; Reading Materials; Revision (Written Composition); Literary Criticism; Teaching Methods; Adults + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? 'Children''s literature'; Kinderliteratur; Korrektur; Literaturkritik; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode
Abstract	Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels" is a complex, uninhibited, savage satire that concludes with the narrator's descent into madness--hardly a likely candidate for children's reading. In the nearly three hundred years since it was first published, however, "Gulliver's Travels" has become associated with children's literature, though it is usually abridged, bowdlerized, and/or totally transformed. This essay examines changes commonly made to the text and concludes that these changes reveal how adults wield the tools of revision and abridgement in order to maintain an adult-child dichotomy characterized by power differentials. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10