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Voltaire and Candide: Optimism as a Target of Ridicule

How To Write Satire – Voltaire and Candide: Optimism as a Target of Ridicule — How Voltaire’s novella demolished an entire philosophical system through accumulated absurdity

by Hannah Miller

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Menippean Satire: Philosophy as Comedy

How To Write Satire – Menippean Satire: Philosophy as Comedy — The third great classical satirical tradition, mixing prose and verse, high seriousness and low farce, in an endlessly productive hybrid

by Mei Lin Chen

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Tag: philosophical satire

Voltaire and Candide: Optimism as a Target of Ridicule

Menippean Satire: Philosophy as Comedy