Download or read book Swift, Joyce, and the Flight from Home written by G. Atkins and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-12-03 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a fresh reading of Gulliver's Travels and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Atkins draws parallels between the protagonists: both Lemuel Gulliver and Stephen Dedalus flee from the burdens of life, seeking a transcendent existence. The study sheds important new light on both novels as essential critiques of modern misunderstandings.