Aphoristic Modernity

1880 to the Present
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-40004-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 6, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 567 g

Reihe: Literary Modernism

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Boyiopoulos, Kostas

Shallcross, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.