The Ladies Man

Entrelaces - Revista do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Letras-UFC, 2020

Society is marked by relations of power that stratify itself. Relations that are marked by inequality in view of the uneven spaces occupied by men and women. If, on the one hand, man are responsible for public spaces and, as a consequence, for the domain of social discourses; on the other hand, women belong to the private space, where they are assigned to the roles of housewife and mother. This paper aims at analyzing the work Gulliver's Travels (2009) by Jonathan Swift from a gender perspective. As object of this research it was taken the Queen's maid of honor of Brondingnag. The present analyses showed that in a first glance it is possible to think in a reality in which the woman is not described as subdued to the masculine. However, it is highlighted that women still assimilate a submissive role and do not subvert the establishment imposed by their gender. Hence, no change occurs in woman representation because the female characters are impregnated by male discourse. Because of strong cultural issues the Queen's maid act according to the expectations the Western patriarchal society has about them.

World Journal of English Language, 2023

Jonathan Swift, a prominent figure in the literary landscape of the eighteenth century, was widely recognized for his provocative and controversial satirical works. Scholars and literary experts have engaged in ongoing discussions and analysis over the controversial nature of his literary creations throughout the span of several centuries. While certain critics have said that his written works exhibit signs of misogyny, racism, and colonialism perspectives, alternative perspectives have seen him as a potent advocate for humanism and a catalyst for social change. This research focuses on the Victorian Era, spanning from 1837 until the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, and explores the various interpretations of Jonathan Swift's literary works within this historical period. This research draws upon the perspectives of several critics, such as Kelly, Orrery, Real, Thackeray, Macaulay, Graik, Bucknill, LoForte-Rand, and Taine, to assert that Swift was a figure of considerable controversy. The current study has also reached the finding that Swift demonstrated argumentative inclinations. The existence of multiple readings of Swift's Gulliver's Travels serves as support for this claim.

The Turkish Online Journal of Design, Art and Communication, 2018

The nature of man has always been under the close consideration of many philosophers and thinkers throughout history. The challenge has raised many questions about human nature; what is man? what features distinguish man from other animals? and more importantly, what is the conception of human nature? is it inherently good or evil? is it affected by environment? is it selfish or social? does man have free will or not? can human nature be changed? how can man change it? Through searching to find answers for all these questions, many scholars in various fields of study have always been attempting to define human nature. On one side, this study provides different theories of human nature in philosophy, religions, psychology and more significantly, literature. On the other side, the core focus of the study is on Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope, two English satirists of eighteenth century, who define the nature of man from their own point of views in their most arguable works about hum...

Notes and Queries, 2008

2009

Monograf, 2021

Graham Swift's Last Orders (1996) covers the story of a one-day trip of four men from London to Margate to scatter the ashes of a deceased friend to the sea. The narrative is presented in monologue chapters in which multiple narrators, in a confessional tone, introduce their histories, recollections and memories sparked by this death. Almost all of the narrators are fathers and the stories they relate are either about their children or their fathers. Within these narrations, fathers become the symbols of tradition, history, authority and stability. The following generation, on the other hand, symbolizes change, future, individualism and mobility. While these discrepancies introduce a certain level of tension, the crisis that masculinity faced, as in the changing role of fatherhood, in the last decade of the twentieth century becomes another source of the conflict in the novel. This conflict is heightened by the narrator fathers who, by looking back at their fathers in the past, try to continue the old forms of masculinities. The aim of this study is, then, to analyse this conflict and crisis in the novel caused by the ever-changing forms of masculinities and to locate it within a certain socioeconomic and cultural frame. A thorough analysis of the male characters of the novel may contribute to the overall understanding of masculinities. Novels are important objects of research as they provide instances to explore the construction of mas-culinities. The mechanisms at work in the process of this construction may be more visible in literary texts as literature serves to foreground knowledge that has become invisible because of familiarity.

Chaucer in Context, chapter 4. , 1996

Looks at the conflicting ways in which critics have related Chaucer to medieval views of women.

2021

Muhammad Anees1, Dr. Akbar Ali2, Dr. Liaqat Iqbal3, Sajjad Ahmad4, Irfan Ullah Khan5, Azhar khan6, 1Lecturer in English Government College Peshawar, 2Assistant Professor Department of English, FATA University, KP, Pakistan, 3Assistant Professor, Department of English, Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan, KP, Pakistan, 4Lecturer, Bacha Khan University Charsadda, KP, Pakistan, 5Lecturer in English GPGC Bannu, 6Assistant Professor SRH Campus AWKUM KPK, Pakistan, Email: [email protected], [email protected] (Correspondence author), [email protected]

Published in Philament, July 2017. Identifying the gender performance in Jonathan Swift's "The Lady's Dressing Room"

1986