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Much has been written about the complicated intertextual relationships between J. M. Coetzee's novels and previous works by writers such as Franz Kafka, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Samuel Beckett, and, especially, Daniel Defoe. Relatively little has been written, in comparison, about any relationship between Coetzee and Defoe's great contemporary, Jonathan Swift. We claim no extensive structural relationship between Coetzee's novels and Swift's works--nothing like the formal interlace between Robinson Crusoe and Foe, for example. We do claim, however, a strong and explicitly signalled likeness of narrative stance, marked especially by the ironic distance between author and protagonist in Gulliver's Travels and Elizabeth Costello. We rehearse the extensive evidence of Coetzee's attention to Swift (both in novels and criticism) and suggest that there is a Swiftian dimension to Coetzee's oeuvre that is evident in several books, including Dusklands, Youth, Elizabeth Costello, and Diary of a Bad Year. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Elaborates the structural and rhetorical coherence of Jonathan Swift's parody in Book III of the book 'Gulliver's Travels.' Genre of the language used in 'Gulliver's Travels'; Analysis of the animosity of Gulliver toward materialist scheme; Number of the appearance of the term 'hope' in Book III; Presentation of visionary cynicism in the book.