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Aphoristic Modernity

1880 to the Present

Gebonden Engels 2019 9789004400047
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For the first time in scholarship, this essay collection interprets modernity through the literary micro-genres of the aphorism, the epigram, the maxim, and the fragment. Situating Friedrich Nietzsche and Oscar Wilde as forerunners of modern aphoristic culture, the collection analyses the relationship between aphoristic consciousness and literary modernism in the expanded purview of the long twentieth century, through the work of a wide range of authors, including Samuel Beckett, Max Beerbohm, Jorge Luis Borges, Katherine Mansfield, and Stevie Smith. From the romantic fragment to the tweet, Aphoristic Modernity offers a compelling exploration of the short form's pervasive presence both as a standalone artefact and as part of a larger textual and cultural matrix.

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ISBN13:9789004400047
Taal:Engels
Bindwijze:Gebonden
Aantal pagina's:280
Uitgever:Brill

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Acknowledgements

 List of Illustrations

 Notes on Contributors

 Introduction: Like a Burr: Aphoristic Writing and Modernity

 Kostas Boyiopoulos and Michael Shallcross

 1Aphoristic Gaps and Theories of the Image

 Peter Robinson

 2‘A Ruin Amidst Ruins’: Modernity, Literary Aphorisms, and Romantic Fragments

 Mark Sandy

 3Social Notes: Oscar Wilde, Francis Bacon, and the Medium of Aphorism

 Simon Reader

 4Brilliancy and Mimicry: Epigrammatic Wit in Oscar Wilde, Max Beerbohm, and Ada Leverson

 Kostas Boyiopoulos

 5We Moderns: Katherine Mansfield and Edwin Muir in theNew Age

 Chris Mourant

 6‘You must remain broken up’: Wyndham Lewis, Laughter, and the Subjective Aphorism

 Alan Munton

 7Knowing Nothing: Wilde and Beckett Deranging the Aphorism

 Rebekah Scott

 8Aphoristic Interruption in Stevie Smith

 Noreen Masud

 9Stepping into the Same River Twice: Jorge Luis Borges’s Aphoristic Short Stories

 Baylee Brits

 10Aphorisms and Archipelagos: Relationality in Modernist Studies

 Maebh Long

 11Epigrammatic Writing and Remix Culture: Memes and Mastery

 Francesca Coppa

 12‘I saw a sign that said “Drink Canada Dry”’: Alcoholic Epigrams, Modern Marketing, and the Value of Moderation

 Michael Shallcross

 Bibliography

 Index

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