Robert Frost
Moraru Teodora-Bianca
IIIrd year, German-English gr. I.
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Defying Dr. Samuel Johnson's statement that "Nothing odd will do long", Laurence Sterne's eccentric masterpiece, "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman", an extended act of meditation upon story-telling based on John Locke's philosophical theory of the association of ideas, became a notable forerunner of the modern English novel, celebrating the infinite possibilities of the art of fiction.
Undoubtedly, one of the most crucial philosophical literary works of the 18th century was John Locke's "Essay Concerning Human Understanding", which had a tremendous influence on the writers of his time and also on the worldwide approach to terms such as "the nature of thought" and "human consciousness". In his "Essay", Locke stated important theories about the sequence of ideas and their interrelation, which profoundly......
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