Aphoristic modernity : : 1880 to the present / / edited by Kostas Boyiopoulos, Michael Shallcross.
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 relationsh...
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| Superior document: | Chloe; volume48 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : BRILL,, 2019. |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Chloe;
volume48. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (293 pages). |
| Notes: | Collection of essays presented at a conference held at the University of York in 2015. |
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Table of Contents:
- Front Matter
- Copyright Page / Michael Shallcross
- Dedication / Michael Shallcross
- Acknowledgements / Michael Shallcross
- Illustrations / Michael Shallcross
- Notes on Contributors / Michael Shallcross
- Like a Burr: Aphoristic Writing and Modernity / Kostas Boyiopoulos and Michael Shallcross
- Aphoristic Gaps and Theories of the Image / Peter Robinson
- ‘A Ruin Amidst Ruins’: Modernity, Literary Aphorisms, and Romantic Fragments / Mark Sandy
- Social Notes: Oscar Wilde, Francis Bacon, and the Medium of Aphorism / Simon Reader
- Brilliancy and Mimicry: Epigrammatic Wit in Oscar Wilde, Max Beerbohm, and Ada Leverson / Kostas Boyiopoulos
- We Moderns: Katherine Mansfield and Edwin Muir in the New Age / Chris Mourant
- ‘You must remain broken up’: Wyndham Lewis, Laughter and the Subjective Aphorism / Alan Munton
- Knowing Nothing: Wilde and Beckett Deranging the Aphorism / Rebekah Scott
- Aphoristic Interruption in Stevie Smith / Noreen Masud
- Stepping into the Same River Twice: Jorge Luis Borges’s Aphoristic Short Stories / Baylee Brits
- Aphorisms and Archipelagos: Relationality in Modernist Studies / Maebh Long
- Epigrammatic Writing and Remix Culture: Memes and Mastery / Francesca Coppa
- ‘I saw a sign that said “Drink Canada Dry”’: Alcoholic Epigrams, Modern Marketing, and the Value of Moderation / Michael Shallcross
- Back Matter
- Bibliography / Michael Shallcross
- Index / Michael Shallcross.