"Gulliver's Travels" by J. Swift in Soviet Children's Culture of the 1920-1940s

Student: Kovrizhnykh Anastasiia

Supervisor: Elena Zemskova

Educational Programme: Comparative Studies: Russian Literature in Cross-cultural Perspective (Master)

Year of Graduation: 2018

The work is devoted to studing the reception of "Gulliver's Travels" by Jonathan Swift's in Soviet children's culture of the 1920s-1940s. Using a wide range of sources (Soviet translations of the book, critical and educational texts, passages from children's literature) the author analyses the Soviet familiarization of world literature and researches the social and cultural functions of Gulliver. Since the research is focused on the symbolic meanings of Gulliver in public consciousness, it deals with media (in particular, cinematic) transformations of Swift's book: the Soviet film is presented here as a part of the world experience of adaptations.

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