Essays on Fragmentary

Artists in various fields and media have often drawn inspiration from their fellow artists who work in different formats. For example, writers have often been influenced by music; and movies have often been based on novels or plays. In the 20th century, however, there was a very close alliance between writers and visual artists, both in American and in Europe. Modernist painters often developed friendships with modernist writers and poets, and modernist poets often used modern paintings as an inspiration for their poems. This trend continued in the second half of the twentieth century, as the post-modern or Beat ...

A.N. Whitehead famously claimed that all Western Philosophy was nothing more than footnotes to Plato. But long before Plato or Socrates, there were many Greek thinkers who looked for answers to many of the same questions that Plato had asked. Two of the most famous of these thinkers were Heraclitus and Parmenides. Both of these philosophers were thinkers were pre-Socratic metaphysicians and asked questions related to the nature of reality. Since they were both two of the oldest philosophers in Europe, many of their ideas seem quite strange to modern readers and the fact that their works only exist ...

Dislocation and Dysfunction

Winesburg, Ohio (1919) by Sherwood Anderson is full of characters who lead unhappy, unfulfilling lives – who feel alienated and isolated from one another and from the town in which they live. It could be described as a novel or it could be described as a collection of twenty-four stories which are connected by being set in the eponymous town of the title or by the development of George Willard, who features as a protagonist or secondary character in sixteen of the stories, and is mentioned in three others. George Willard is also privileged as a character since his parents won a boarding house and ...