Brobdingnag

It is worth remembering that the decidedly non-European nations of Lilliput and Brobdingnag did not receive such comparisons.

Stasiuk introduces a Lilliputian perspective through his allusion to Jonathan Swift, evoking the scene of Gulliver's visit at the queen of Brobdingnag.

Cuando la herencia oral se convirtio en texto, el viaje como motivo literario se hizo presente, por ejemplo, en el mitico regreso de Ulises a Odisea, en los viajes de Dante por el infierno, el purgatorio y el paraiso; en la travesia de don Quijote por La Mancha, en los viajes de Gulliver por Liliput y Brobdingnag, en la expedicion del capitan Ahab tras la ballena blanca, en el recorrido por el mundo en ochenta dias del aristocrata Phileas Fogg, en el viaje de Marlowe por el Congo belga, o en la aventura del innombrado protagonista de Los pasos perdidos por el Orinoco.

El capitan Gulliver, amen de sus conocidas descripciones de Lilliput y Brobdingnag (mejor conocidos como el pais de los enanos y el pais de los gigantes, respectivamente) hizo interesantes descripciones, si bien menos conocidas, de tierras tan lejanas como laputa, Balnibarbi, Luggnagg, Glubbdubdrib, Japon y el pais de los Houyhnhnms (o pais de los caballos).

There, and in his parallel rhapsody on gunpowder to the King of Brobdingnag (Vol.

In Kaarta, for example, Park is exposed to a roomful of curious spectators thirteen times in a row, like Gulliver when performing tricks in public houses in Brobdingnag.

Liliput y Brobdingnag son dos reinos, menudo el uno e inmenso el otro.

Jamoussi's reading of Gulliver's Travels certainly includes the political but pride of place is taken by a discussion of Gulliver's physical confinement (tied to the ground, kept in a box) in Lilliput and Brobdingnag.

The story grows more desperate as it goes on, squeezing in a visit to the super-sized land of Brobdingnag and an inexplicable robot battle en route to a goofy cover of Edwin Starr's anti-Vietnam anthem "War.

Were it not for a brief foray into a land of giants that we assume to be Brobdingnag, Letterman''s adventure would be merely Gulliver''s Travel.

THE LAST time I visited Cibo -- the Italian restaurant at the sprawling backyard of Hotel Janpath -- I could not decide what made me more uncomfortable: the humongous sculptures that, in the evening light, seemed like imports from Brobdingnag, the fictional land of giants in Gulliver's Travels , or the rather commonplace food dished out by the Italian chef.

As though the gallery-goer can traverse the kingdoms of Lilliput and Brobdingnag with a mere stride, the miniature statue is placed next to a gigantic set of worry beads, made up from spheres the size of cannonballs.

Also, he does not discuss the dialogue with the Oyarsa in terms of Gulliver and the King of Brobdingnag and of Cavor and the Grand Lunar.

Although one probably doesn't think about Gullliver's Travels in relation to metrology, when it comes to measuring the very small--as in the micro--or meso-scale--it is not inappropriate to consider Gulliver among the people of Brobdingnag, where he was very small and what we consider to be somewhat insignificant in size takes on enormous scale.

And a desire for verisimilitude undoubtedly led Jonathan Swift to include five quite plausible maps in Gulliver's Travels (1726), including one that tacked the fictitious land of Brobdingnag on to the actual coast of northern California.