Screen LibraryAphoristic modernity : 1880 to the present /
"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 rela...
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Brill,
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| Publisher Address: | Leiden : |
| Publication Dates: | [2020] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Literary modernism,
volume 6 |
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| Summary: |
"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, |
| Item Description: | Collection of essays presented at a conference held at the University of York in 2015. |
| Carrier Form: | xiii, 279 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [251]-271) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9789004400047 9004400044 |
| Index Number: | PN56 |
| CLC: | I109.9-532 |
| Call Number: | I109.9-532/A641/2015 |
| Contents: | Introduction: 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, an |