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This collection of essays begins with a reassessment of Swift s Gulliver s Travels, in particular addressing the universal formative impact it keeps exerting on the myth of utopia (N. Frye) and the ramifications it displays in contemporary exemplars of utopian/dystopian fiction The Handmaid s Tale, Canadian author Margaret Atwood s world success, being a most significant case in point. John Fowles, within an overview of his works, is dealt with to point out the quest-/quester-motif as an informing element, which itself forms part of the myth of the picaresque as the...

Deriving their literary inspiration from New England, Henry David Thoreau and Robert Frost indeed turn the Northeast Corner into a -poetic landscape-. The natural, traditional countryside and habits of New England provided rich stimulus for their writing. Indeed, the rural area formed the focus of their individualism, abhorrence for state repression and early form of ecological awareness. This comparative study not only seeks to underline the affinities between these two -hard-headed Yankees-; it also aims to examine the individual nuances of each poet viewed against their common...