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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.
Contents
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
