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Themes and Motifs: Philosophical Power of literature

Parent Term

  • Philosophical

Sibling Terms

  • Ethics
  • Evolution
  • Existentialism
  • Freedom
  • Freedom of choice
  • Human experience
  • Human nature
  • Individualism
  • Infinity
  • Justice
  • Luck
  • Metaphysics
  • Movement
  • Nihilism
  • Progenitive / Self-reproductive
  • Redemption
  • Reduction / summing up
  • Salvation
  • Suffering
  • Tedious / tedium
  • Unnatural / Contrary to nature

Tagged Events

"Knight's Gambit", 222 (Event)
Actions: Communication›Spanish
Cultural Issues: Age›War | Education
Themes and Motifs: Philosophical›Power of literature
Aesthetics: Allusion, Literary›Cervantes, Miguel de | Allusion, Literary›Don Quixote
"Monk", 41 (Event)
Cultural Issues: Health and Illness›Mental limitations
Themes and Motifs: Philosophical›Power of literature | Recurring Tropes›Trying to say | Story-telling
Aesthetics: Description›Character portrait | Metafictional | Narrative›First-person passim
Absalom, Absalom!, 5 (Event)
Actions: Perceptual›Listening | Verbal›Storytelling
Cultural Issues: Class›Professional | Cultural Identity›North vs South | Education›Harvard
Themes and Motifs: Arrivals/Departures›Departure | Philosophical›Power of literature
Relationships: Intergenerational