Houyhnhnms are a fictional race of intelligent horses described in the last part of Jonathan Swift's satirical 1726 novel Gulliver's Travels. The name...
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Houyhnhnms and Yahoos as a master/slave dynamic. Gulliver becomes a member of a horse's household and comes to both admire and emulate the Houyhnhnms...
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In the book, Gulliver is so impressed with the Utopian country of the Houyhnhnms that when he returns to England he eventually chooses to live out his...
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(or, less frequently, year 593 Ab urbe condita) and the Third Year of Houyhnhnm. The denomination 161 BC for this year it has been used since the early...
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exhibited a series of pictures illustrating "Gulliver's visit to the Houyhnhnms", one of which was engraved in mezzotint by Valentine Green; in 1770 a...
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moons, which his Laputan astronomers had discovered. Island gigantism Houyhnhnm Lilliput and Blefuscu Struldbrug Yahoo (Gulliver's Travels) Grildrig has...
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Gulliver. He finds the calm and rational society of intelligent horses, the Houyhnhnms, greatly preferable. The Yahoos are primitive creatures obsessed with...
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Language suggested that hoon (meaning "a fool") was a contraction of Houyhnhnm, a fictional race of intelligent horses which appears in Gulliver's Travels...
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eventually returns to England; like Gulliver on his return from the Houyhnhnms, he finds himself unable to shake off the perceptions of his fellow humans...
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the countries Lemuel Gulliver visits, Brobdingnag and Country of the Houyhnhnms approach a utopia; the others have significant dystopian aspects. In ecotopian...
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stereotypes in part four of Gulliver's Travels, "A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms," when he writes that: "It is observed that the red-haired of both sexes...
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"Hwin" is a contraction of "Hwinhynym"[citation needed], which, spelled "Houyhnhnm" is the name of the race of noble horses from Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's...
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(by Jonathan Swift) when he returns to England after living among the "Houyhnhnms". Gulliver can no longer stand the smell of the English Yahoos (people)...
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d'écrivains Narrator Episode: "Nathalie Sarraute" 1996 Gulliver's Travels Houyhnhnm Mistress (voice) Episode #1.2 2001 Médée Médée TV film Isabelle Huppert...
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seventeen years of composition. In March 2010, a new edition was published by Houyhnhnm Press in conjunction with Penguin. Editors Danis Rose and John O'Hanlon...
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including Lilliput and Blefuscu, Brobdingnag, Laputa and the land of the Houyhnhnms (although Brobdingnag is not an island but a peninsula attached to North...
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animalistic and overtly sexual Yahoos with the reserved and intelligent Houyhnhnms. Early works that showed sexually open characters to be morally impure...
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giants. Later, the British satirist, Jonathan Swift, set the land of the Houyhnhnms of Gulliver's Travels to the west of Tasmania. In 1797 the British Romantic...
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Protestant work ethic, among other subjects. In Book IV, Swift writes of the Houyhnhnms, an intelligent race of horses that believed society could govern itself...
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creature turned into a savage, animal-like the state of society in which the Houyhnhnms—descendants of horses—are the dominant species. H.P. Lovecraft's 1924...
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Beijinger. Retrieved 2 March 2022. "A girl turned into ZOMBIE-CHANG". GIRL HOUYHNHNM. Retrieved 2 March 2022. "Japan is the second biggest music market in...
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Eco (Duke of la Isla del Día de Antes) 2009 – Marc Fumaroli (Duke of Houyhnhnms) 2010 – Milan Kundera 2011 – Ian McEwan (Duke of the black dogs) Marías...
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Travels (1726) by Jonathan Swift, the title character, travelling from Houyhnhnms Land, spends a few days on the southeast coast of New Holland before he...
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sets off on his fourth and final journey, a voyage to the Land of the Houyhnhnms. September 26 – Great Northern War – Capitulation of Livonia: the Swedish...
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home for a contemporary Englishman. Book four depicts the land of the Houyhnhnms, a society of horses ruled by pure reason, where humanity itself is portrayed...
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Swift: Queen Anne is referred to as a "female man" in Chapter 4 of the Houyhnhnms section. Beowulf from oral tradition: Joanna alludes to Grendel's mother...
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without Swift's bitterness, the contrast between Gulliver and the rational Houyhnhnms in Gulliver's Travels (1726). Collier's style, however, is playful; he...
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and Kashiyama. He's made regular appearances in magazines such as UOMO, Houyhnhnm, Brutus, Popeye, Tokyo Calendar, and Fukuoka's Bond Magazine. He has done...
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Karl May's Winnetou Hell Bitch, from Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry The Houyhnhnms, a race of intelligent and cultured horses in Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan...
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sets off on his fourth and final journey, a voyage to the Land of the Houyhnhnms. September 26 – Great Northern War – Capitulation of Livonia: the Swedish...
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