Brobdingnag

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• The figurative resources of his masterpiece are directly comparable: (1) in Lilliput, a dilation of scale to the point that the human is reduced to a contemptible size; (2) in Brobdingnag

  Academic text (2016)

• Even the name Sandymount strand—lilting, alliterative—suggests a fantasy world somewhere in the vicinity of Brobdingnag or Narnia.

  Academic text (2004)

• Although residents of Lilliput were 6 inches tall and those of Brobdingnag were 60 feet tall.

  Academic text (2006)

• Second (which I discuss only briefly) is the use of carpentry and cabinetmaking in part two, the voyage to Brobdingnag.

  Academic text (2016)

• "In Gulliver's Travels, Swift has Gulliver give these reasons for not claiming Lilliput, Brobdingnag, and the other lands for the crown:

  Academic text (1994)

• Gulliver's gigantism in Lilliput, like his miniaturization in Brobdingnag, has the effect of instrumentalizing his body.

  Academic text (2016)

• That book's various angles of vision are focused, in the Lilliput/Brobdingnag sections, through grotesquely great changes of scale, onto the technological particulars, as well as, more obviously, the social and moral.

  Academic text (1997)

• In the land of the Houyhnhnms, we do not expect Gulliver to attempt technomilitary knowledge transfer of the sort rejected so indignantly by the king of Brobdingnag.

  Academic text (2016)

• Gulliver's experiences in Lilliput and Brobdingnag highlight our bias for the spatial scale in which we live, and they also illustrate an important distinction about the concept of scale.

  Academic text (2006)

• But the sound carpentry and practical toy making of Brobdingnag takes on satirical meaning mainly as a contrast (in turn) with the extraordinary clumsiness of the people of Laputa and Lagado in part three.

  Academic text (2016)

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