The Faber Book Of Aphorisms

Author : Wystan Hugh Auden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780571095193
Total Pages : 405 pages
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Download or read book The Faber Book of Aphorisms written by Wystan Hugh Auden and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aphorisms are not witticisms or epigrams, but general truths succinctly stated. This anthology contains 3000 quotations from a wide variety of aphorists ranging from Heraclitus to Ogden Nash, as well as Jane Austen, Pascal, Freud, Goethe, the Duke of Wellington, Shaw, Jean Cocteau and many more.

Author : Wystan Hugh Auden
Publisher : London : Faber and Faber
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 405 pages
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Download or read book The Faber Book of Aphorisms written by Wystan Hugh Auden and published by London : Faber and Faber. This book was released on 1962 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Faber Book of Aphorisms written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Wystan Hugh Auden
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 405 pages
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Download or read book The Faber Book of Aphorisms written by Wystan Hugh Auden and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : W. H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden
Publisher : London : Faber and Faber
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 405 pages
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Download or read book The Faber Book of Aphorisms written by W. H. (Wystan Hugh) Auden and published by London : Faber and Faber. This book was released on 1962 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 405 pages
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Download or read book The Faber Book of Aphorisms written by and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Wystan Hugh Auden
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 405 pages
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Download or read book The Viking Book of Aphorisms written by Wystan Hugh Auden and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Don Paterson
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571338232
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fall at Home written by Don Paterson and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aphorisms have been described as 'the obscure hinterland between poetry and prose' (New Yorker) - short pithy statements that capture the essence of the human condition in all its shades. In this New and Selected, master of the form Don Paterson brings the best examples from his three previous volumes together with ingenious new material relevant to today's world. Moving and mischievous, canny and profound - these wide-ranging observations of no more than one or two lines demonstrate that the aphorism is the perfect form for our times. Consciousness is the turn the universe makes to hasten its own end. * Agnosticism is indulged only by those who have never suffered belief. * Poet: someone in the aphorism business for the money.

Author : Noreen Masud
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192895893
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stevie Smith and the Aphorism written by Noreen Masud and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-03-22 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Ben Grant
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134104588
Total Pages : 164 pages
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Download or read book The Aphorism and Other Short Forms written by Ben Grant and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-20 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The aphorism captures a huge amount of truth, meaning or wit in a very short statement. It has been used and studied from classical times to contemporary theory and takes on a new relevance when we look at today’s communication media such as text messages and twitter. This concise guide offers an overview of: The history of the aphorism to the present day Its relation to other short forms, including the fragment, the proverb, the maxim, the haiku, the epigram and the quotation The use of the aphorism by authors such as Heraclitus, Bacon, La Rochefoucauld, Chuang Tzu, Blake, Schlegel, Emerson, Nietzsche, Wilde, Woolf and Barthes The interdisciplinary nature of the aphorism, bringing together science, philosophy, literature and religion Exploring all the key aspects of the form, Ben Grant guides readers through this large and lively area in a wide-ranging and critically informed study of the aphorism.