What are tips for trying to analyze Gulliver's Travel's from the perspective of literary theory with some emphasis on M. M. Bakhtin?I have been...

When analyzing a work from a literary criticism
perspective, you must approach the work from the ideology of the particular theory being
used. For instance, an analysis of Gulliver's Travels from the
perspective of Russian Formalism, which is interested in structure and literary devices,
would yield a very different result than would an analysis from the perspective of
Marxist criticism, which is interested in the dynamic between the ruling and working
classes and the resultant oppressions.

Since your intended analysis
will place some emphasis on the theories of Bakhtin, your analysis will focus on
Bakhtin's dialogic principle; on the heteroglossia that he identifies as the diversity
of language (meaning: "other languages"); on the sense of distance and the reduction (or
elimination) of it; and on the other principles important to Bakhtin's theory. So, when
Gulliver is embroiled in political situations, which are otherwise identified as satire
of society, your analysis will examine the dialogic nature of the exchanges between the
speakers (dialogic: relationship between the one or the text expressing thought and the
addressee(s) who is/are attending to the message, then adding more to the
dialog).