A semiotic analysis of Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels helps us answer three questions: 1. how is size difference between socially interacting bodies transformed into a set of inequalities? 2. how do those inequalities determine the social relationships between Gulliver and the societies he is unwillingly visiting? 3. Can Swift’s fictional metaphor be used to better understand the meaning of measures and quantities in contemporary dressing behaviour?
Giampaolo Proni (2019). The Little Giant: the Size of the Human Body in Gulliver's Travels as a Metaphor of Social Relationships. Milano : Mimesis International.
The Little Giant: the Size of the Human Body in Gulliver's Travels as a Metaphor of Social Relationships
Giampaolo Proni
2019
Abstract
A semiotic analysis of Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels helps us answer three questions: 1. how is size difference between socially interacting bodies transformed into a set of inequalities? 2. how do those inequalities determine the social relationships between Gulliver and the societies he is unwillingly visiting? 3. Can Swift’s fictional metaphor be used to better understand the meaning of measures and quantities in contemporary dressing behaviour?File in questo prodotto:
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