Aphoristic Modernity

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