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Houyhnhnms

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Noun1.Houyhnhnms - a land imagined by Jonathan Swift where intelligent horses ruled the Yahoos
fictitious place, imaginary place, mythical place - a place that exists only in imagination; a place said to exist in fictional or religious writings
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Christy Moore plays Birmingham's Symphony Hall on June 1 - to book call 0121 780 3333 088 JONATHAN SWIFT Dublin-born author, priest and satirist whose most famous work is Gulliver's Travels - the tale of a surgeon's adventures in the lands of Lilliput, Brobdingnag and the country of the Houyhnhnms, published in 1726.
100 IRISH GREATS by Birmingham Mail (England)
The most obvious way in which the novel suggests the commonality of humans and animals against Moreau's scientific separation is through its parallels with Book iv of Gulliver's Travels, the voyage to the Houyhnhnms, which most forcefully makes Swift's argument that man is not a rational animal but rather an animal capable of reason.
Animals and animality from the Island of Moreau to the Uplift universe by Vint, Sherryl / Yearbook of English Studies
The principle would seem to apply also to Swift's juxtaposition of Yahoos and Houyhnhnms in Gulliver's Travels.
"The hunger of the imagination": discordia concors in Emma by Fry, Carrol L. / Persuasions: The Jane Austen Journal
 
 
 
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