A voyage to the country of the Houyhnhnms : ironia e arte satírica

• Author(s): Homem, Rui Carvalho
• Date: 2014
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10216/9081
• Origin: Repositório Aberto da Universidade do Porto
• Subject(s): Literatura inglesa - Estudos críticos
• Document Type: Article
• Language: English

Description

The author tries to account for the controversy surrounding the fourth Voyage in Swift's Gulliver's Travels, by pointing out the clash between the consequences of sustained irony and the demands of satire, and its expression in specific narrative strategies.