Author: Wystan Hugh Auden
Publisher: London : Faber and Faber
ISBN:
Category : Aphorisms and apothegms
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
The Faber Book of Aphorisms
Author: Wystan Hugh Auden
Publisher: London : Faber and Faber
ISBN:
Category : Aphorisms and apothegms
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
Publisher: London : Faber and Faber
ISBN:
Category : Aphorisms and apothegms
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
The Faber Book of Aphorisms
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Languages : en
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The Faber Book of Aphorisms
Author: W. H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden
Publisher: London : Faber and Faber
ISBN:
Category : Aphorisms and apothegms
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
Publisher: London : Faber and Faber
ISBN:
Category : Aphorisms and apothegms
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
The Faber Book of Aphorisms
Author: Wystan Hugh Auden
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aphorisms and apothegms
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aphorisms and apothegms
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
The Faber Book of Aphorisms
Author:
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ISBN:
Category : Aphorisms and apothegms
Languages : en
Pages : 405
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Category : Aphorisms and apothegms
Languages : en
Pages : 405
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The Faber book of aphorisms: a personal selection by W.H. Auden and L.Kronenberger
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Category : Aphorisms and apothegms
Languages : en
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Languages : en
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The Faber Book of Aphorisms. A Personal Selection by W.H. Auden and L. Kronenburger
Author: Wystan Hugh Auden
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The Faber Book of Aphorism
Author: Louis Kronenberger
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Languages : en
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The Viking Book of Aphorisms
Author: Wystan Hugh Auden
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Category : Aphorisms and apothegms
Languages : en
Pages : 405
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Category : Aphorisms and apothegms
Languages : en
Pages : 405
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Stevie Smith and the Aphorism
Author: Noreen Masud
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192895893
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
This volume argues that aphorism represents a tool for the social management of emotion. Rhetorically corralled into a slick, collectable shape, the aphorism promises arresting and instantaneous epiphany. However, the accomplished elegance which positions the aphorism's message as self-evidently true in fact works to repel further enquiry, and ultimately ensures that it will be forgotten or bypassed in favour of another aphorism: no less eagerly embraced for the earlier disappointment. Aphorism, therefore, is a form in which dangerous ideas and emotions can be safely displayed and, simultaneously, effaced. Because aphorism's style defuses the imperative to act on what is clearly known, writers like Stevie Smith can use the form to stage a withdrawal from the burden of making an impact on the world. This book finds that Smith's use of aphorism and its related forms (proverb, epitaph, caption, and fragment) offers a route into her texts. With her disconcerting pen-and-ink drawings, dark comedy, and social ventriloquism which stops short of satire, the rhetorical force of Smith's poetry fascinates and arrests its readers, but nevertheless leaves them unable to react coherently or identify the use-value which her writing appears to promise. Drawing on hitherto unpublished archival material, this project argues that Smith's texts resist analysis because, like the aphorisms embedded throughout them, they offer and exemplify a mode of clearly-declared revelation which, at the same time, makes itself unusable.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192895893
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
This volume argues that aphorism represents a tool for the social management of emotion. Rhetorically corralled into a slick, collectable shape, the aphorism promises arresting and instantaneous epiphany. However, the accomplished elegance which positions the aphorism's message as self-evidently true in fact works to repel further enquiry, and ultimately ensures that it will be forgotten or bypassed in favour of another aphorism: no less eagerly embraced for the earlier disappointment. Aphorism, therefore, is a form in which dangerous ideas and emotions can be safely displayed and, simultaneously, effaced. Because aphorism's style defuses the imperative to act on what is clearly known, writers like Stevie Smith can use the form to stage a withdrawal from the burden of making an impact on the world. This book finds that Smith's use of aphorism and its related forms (proverb, epitaph, caption, and fragment) offers a route into her texts. With her disconcerting pen-and-ink drawings, dark comedy, and social ventriloquism which stops short of satire, the rhetorical force of Smith's poetry fascinates and arrests its readers, but nevertheless leaves them unable to react coherently or identify the use-value which her writing appears to promise. Drawing on hitherto unpublished archival material, this project argues that Smith's texts resist analysis because, like the aphorisms embedded throughout them, they offer and exemplify a mode of clearly-declared revelation which, at the same time, makes itself unusable.