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Aphoristic Modernity

1880 to the Present

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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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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Utgivningsdatum2019-10-17
Mått155 x 235 x 23 mm
Vikt594 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieLiterary Modernism
Antal sidor280
FörlagBrill
ISBN9789004400047

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Kostas Boyiopoulos, Ph.D. (2008), Durham University, is a Teaching Associate in English Studies at that University. He has published widely on the fin de siècle and Decadence, including the monograph The Decadent Image: The Poetry of Wilde, Symons, and Dowson (2015).Michael Shallcross, Ph.D. (2014), Durham University, is an independent researcher. His first monograph, Rethinking G.K. Chesterton and Literary Modernism: Parody, Performance, and Popular Culture, was published in 2017. He is co-editor of The Journal of Wyndham Lewis Studies.

AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: Like a Burr: Aphoristic Writing and ModernityKostas Boyiopoulos and Michael Shallcross1Aphoristic Gaps and Theories of the ImagePeter Robinson2‘A Ruin Amidst Ruins’: Modernity, Literary Aphorisms, and Romantic FragmentsMark Sandy3Social Notes: Oscar Wilde, Francis Bacon, and the Medium of AphorismSimon Reader4Brilliancy and Mimicry: Epigrammatic Wit in Oscar Wilde, Max Beerbohm, and Ada LeversonKostas Boyiopoulos5We Moderns: Katherine Mansfield and Edwin Muir in theNew AgeChris Mourant6‘You must remain broken up’: Wyndham Lewis, Laughter, and the Subjective AphorismAlan Munton7Knowing Nothing: Wilde and Beckett Deranging the AphorismRebekah Scott8Aphoristic Interruption in Stevie SmithNoreen Masud9Stepping into the Same River Twice: Jorge Luis Borges’s Aphoristic Short StoriesBaylee Brits10Aphorisms and Archipelagos: Relationality in Modernist StudiesMaebh Long11Epigrammatic Writing and Remix Culture: Memes and MasteryFrancesca Coppa12‘I saw a sign that said “Drink Canada Dry”’: Alcoholic Epigrams, Modern Marketing, and the Value of ModerationMichael ShallcrossBibliographyIndex