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The Embodying Image: A Design For A Computer-Aided Analysis Of Distorted Body Imagery In Gulliver's Travels, Mary S. Erbaugh

Honors Papers

Of all the imagery available to the writer the body's imagery is perhaps the most powerful and immediate. Using arms and legs and eyebrow in his work he insures himself of a bond with his reader, for each reader has his own arms and legs and eyebrows to identify with in his mind and experience. No one can read Swift's terse sentence, "Last week I saw a woman flayed, and you will hardly believe how much it altered her person for the worse" without feeling a shudder of horror and sympathy in his own body. Travels into Several Remote Nations …