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79Literature, Philosophy and the Absurd: Voltaire's Candide
At the age of sixty-five, Voltaire, who had already established a name for himself as a philosopher, satirist and playwright, published his most famous work, Candide. The fictional work is a farce on the popular romances written at the time....
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80Literary Origins: Shakespeare's Creative Wordplay: A Linguistic Analysis of Catachreses in Hamlet.
The reputation of Hamlet as one of Shakespeare’s greatest plays often times overlooks one of the greatest achievements of the play. While many scholars acknowledge the play as the birth of the modern man,[1] few seem to place as much...
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80Literary Origins: Socrates' Improbable Defense in Plato's Apology
One of Plato’s most well known and important works is his Apology . In it, Socrates, the central figure in the works of Plato, is put on trial for his life. The main accusation against him is that he...
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66Literary Origins: Autonomy in the Kalevala as a means to re-evaluate the tradition of the Western Patriarchy.
The tradition of oral poetry is shared amongst many ancient cultures, traditions and language families. While there are many similarities, both in the mechanics and the subject matter of these ancient texts,...
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