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Lincoln Nguyen
Ms. Hutton
IB English: Hour 1
January 4, 2017
Annotated Bibliography
Feder, Helena. The Critical Relevance of the Critique of Rationalism: Postmodernism,
Ecofeminism, and Voltaire's Candide. Women's Studies, vol. 31, no. 2, Mar/Apr2002, pp.
199-220.
Feder, the Associate Professor of Literature and Environment at East Carolina University,
the director of the Great Books program, nonfiction writer, poet, and essayist, discusses
the role of rationalism in Voltaires Candide and how the garden critiques both the
rationalist and abstract ways of life. She argues that systematic rationalism is an attack on
nature, women, non-European peoples, and the poor (199). Systematic rationalism, the
monolithic embrace of reason (199), is the belief that power produces reason and
reason produces power. Voltaire portrays the madness of a life lead by systematic
rationalism and other forms of abstraction (202), partly represented by Leibnizian
optimism, in Candide through repeatedly demonstrating that humans are not masters of
the earth nor of fate (202) and asserting this limit on reason, knowledge, or human
power in positive terms. Candides words
Feder blah blah blah.
Putnam, LuElla. Boredom, Insignificance, and Death in Voltaire's Candide, Charles Baudelaire's
the Flowers of Evil, and Paulo Coelho's Veronika Decides to Die. Atenea, vol. 30, no. 12, 2010, pp. 67-78.

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LuElla, the something something.
LuElla blah blah.

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