What the women of Dublin did with John Locke by Gerrard, C

“…This essay focuses on the work of Laetitia Pilkington (1709–1750) and Mary Barber (1685–1755), two of the Dublin women writers of the so-called ‘Triumfeminate’, a literary and intellectual circle connected to Jonathan Swift which met and discussed ideas at the home of Patrick Delaney. …”

Fortune des "Voyages de Gulliver" dans l'édition pour la jeunesse en France by Christiane Connan-Pintado

“…Tel est le destin du roman de Jonathan Swift dont le personnage a largement éclipsé l’auteur. …”
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Cartography and Narrative in the Maps of Herman Moll’s The World Described by Alex Zukas

“…While historians like Dennis Reinhartz have discussed the presence of Moll’s maps in encyclopedic geography texts like Atlas Geographus as well as buccaneer narratives like William Dampier’s A Voyage Round the World and Woodes Rogers’ A Cruising Voyage Round the World and fictional texts like Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe and Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, they have not discussed to any extent how narrative was an integral part of Moll’s maps in The World Described. …”
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Editorial by Manuel Oswaldo Ávila Vásquez

“…De lo contrario, está condenado a llevar la vida de los despistados habitantes de la Isla Flotante a los que se refiere Jonathan Swift en sus famosos Viajes de Gulliver. No podría ser otra la invitación, desde esta editorial, a todos aquellos dedicados a la dura tarea del filosofar. …”
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Gulliver, os liliputianos e a física by Luiz Raimundo Moreira de Carvalho

“…Com o objetivo de discutir aspectos relacionados à aprendizagem de conceitos considerados alicerces para a aprendizagem em física, são propostas situações-problema envolvendo o imaginário reino de Liliput, descrito na mais famosa obra de Jonathan Swift, As Viagens de Gulliver. A narrativa de Swift apresenta diversas circunstâncias que, apesar de fictícias, são muito ricas e nos permitem explorar os alicerces de uma forma interessante e, principalmente, abordando uma grande variedade de situações que envolvem as principais dificuldades apresentadas pelos estudantes no estudo de conceitos físicos básicos.…”
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Pirate Assemblage by Steven W. Thomas

“…My answer to the first question explores the concept of “assemblage” for reading and appreciating pirate literature, and my answer to the second question that eighteenth-century literature read in relation to this “pirate assemblage” suggests new ways of reading canonical texts such as Jonathan Swift’s <i>Gulliver’s Travels</i> (1726) and John Gay’s <i>Beggar’s Opera</i> (1728) that were written soon after the first volume of <i>The General History of Pyrates</i>. …”
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Keyness, Context, and Cultural Specificity in Indirect Translation by Jan BUTS, James HADLEY, Mohammad ABOOMAR

“…Based on a trilingual (English, French, and Italian) corpus-assisted study of Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels (1726) and John Cary’s An Essay on the State of England (1695), the article accentuates the productive complementarity of numerical operations and context-sensitive readings.…”
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"L’anno 3000" di Paolo Mantegazza. L’utopia scientifica al servizio del progresso coloniale by Daniele Comberiati

“…The trip is an opportunity to present to the reader the different aspects of the cities visited, according to a rigid and rather common scheme that sees in the classics of utopian literature the major antecedents, from Tommaso Campanella to Thomas More passing through Jonathan Swift, especially with regard to employment irony. …”
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Gulliver no século 21 Gulliver in the 21st century by Margarida Maria Knobbe

“…Tendo como operador cognitivo o livro &lt;i&gt;As Viagens de Gulliver&lt;/i&gt;, de Jonathan Swift (2005), e com base principalmente nos argumentos apresentados em &lt;i&gt;O Método 5 – a humanidade da humanidade: a identidade humana&lt;/i&gt;, de Edgar Morin (2002), este ensaio problematiza algumas interconexões entre comunicação, compreensão, ética, ciência e condição humana no atual processo de mundialização. …”
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Humour, Wit, and Society in Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy (“The Author’s Preface”) by Flavio Gregori

“…The essay compares the satirical criticism of modern introductions found in Jonathan Swift’s A Tale of a Tub and the humorous but balanced mixture of wit and judgment in Tristram Shandy’s Preface. …”
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Eighteenth century women and the domestic mock heroic by Lawton-Trask, K

“…It demonstrates that the mock-heroic poems written by women differed significantly from those written by Scriblerians such as Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, and John Gay – both in form and in tone. …”

UFOs: Reframing the Debate edited by Robbie Graham by Richard Thieme

“…I wanted to reach for a balloon full of dried peas to bang them on the heads as Jonathan Swift suggested we do to bring people back to earth. …”
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Epônimos e o consórcio intelectual entre ciência e literatura by Rogerio F. Guerra

“…Por outro lado, nomes de autores ou personagens fictícios às vezes são utilizados para designar doenças e fenômenos científicos (epônimos), como síndrome de Münchhausen ou de  Stendhal, alucinações lilliputianas (Jonathan Swift), síndrome do Sr. Pickwick (Charles Dickens) e doença do chapeleiro maluco (Lewis Carroll). …”
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Mean sea level and tidal change in Ireland since 1842: a case study of Cork by D. T. Pugh, E. Bridge, R. Edwards, P. Hogarth, G. Westbrook, P. L. Woodworth, G. D. McCarthy

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Scepticism at sea: Herman Melville and philosophical doubt by Evans, D, David Evans

“…In so doing he makes a substantive contribution to a philosophical discourse that has often been criticised – by commentators including Samuel Johnson and Jonathan Swift – for its tendency to abstraction.</p> <p>Melville’s interest in scepticism might be read as part of a wider cultural response to a period of unprecedented social and political change in antebellum America, and with this in mind I compare and contrast his work with that of Dickinson, Douglass, Emerson, and Thoreau. …”

Stress, coping, and psychological resilience among physicians by Emily O’Dowd, Paul O’Connor, Sinéad Lydon, Orla Mongan, Fergal Connolly, Catherine Diskin, Aoibheann McLoughlin, Louise Rabbitt, Lyle McVicker, Bronwyn Reid-McDermott, Dara Byrne

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RUSSIA'S RELATIONS WITH THE EUROPEAN UNION AND CHINA: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF MUTUAL PERCEPTION IN THE BORDER REGIONS by R. H. Simonyan, T. M. Kochegarova

“…The notorious dichotomy becomes more and more absurd, Recalling the disputes of "points" and "dull bits" from the famous novel of Jonathan Swift. The country is a completely different choice - effectiveness and development or the inefficiency and backwardness, modernization or preservation of its political and economic model, developed by reformers in 1990-ies. …”
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Russia’s Relations with the European Union and China: Comparative Analysis of Mutual Perception in the Border Regions by Renald H. Simonyan, Tamara M. Kochegarova

“…The notorious dichotomy becomes more and more absurd, Recalling the disputes of "points" and "dull bits" from the famous novel of Jonathan Swift. The country is a completely different choice - effectiveness and development or the inefficiency and backwardness, modernization or preservation of its political and economic model, developed by reformers in 1990-ies. …”
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Russia’s Relations with the European Union and China: Comparative Analysis of Mutual Perception in the Border Regions by Renald H. Simonyan, Tamara M. Kochegarova

“…The notorious dichotomy becomes more and more absurd, Recalling the disputes of "points" and "dull bits" from the famous novel of Jonathan Swift. The country is a completely different choice - effectiveness and development or the inefficiency and backwardness, modernization or preservation of its political and economic model, developed by reformers in 1990-ies. …”
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Swift's art of allusion by Sperrin, D

“…<p>The thesis is a study of Jonathan Swift’s library and reading, and a literary-critical examination of his art of allusion. …”