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Stevie Smith and the Aphorism

Author : Noreen Masud
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192895893
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 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 Drawing on hitherto unpublished archival material, this project argues that Smith's texts resist analysis because, like the aphorisms embedded throughout them, they offer and exemplify a mode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.

Aphorism in Stevie Smith

Author : Noreen Masud
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Aphorism in Stevie Smith written by Noreen Masud and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Aphoristic Modernity

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004400060
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Aphoristic Modernity written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collected essays of Aphoristic Modernity: 1880 to the Present showcase aphoristic and epigrammatic writing as both a reflection of, and influence upon, the fragmented culture of modernity from the late nineteenth- to the twenty-first century.

Victorian Poetry and the Culture of the Heart

Author : Kirstie Blair
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 0191534382
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Victorian Poetry and the Culture of the Heart written by Kirstie Blair and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 2006-04-27 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victorian Poetry and the Culture of the Heart is a significant and timely study of nineteenth-century poetry and poetics. It considers why and how the heart became a vital image in Victorian poetry, and argues that the intense focus on heart imagery in many major Victorian poems highlights anxieties in this period about the ability of poetry to act upon its readers. In the course of the nineteenth century, this study argues, increased doubt about the validity of feeling led to the depiction of the literary heart as alienated, distant, outside the control of mind and will. This coincided with a notable rise in medical literature specifically concerned with the pathological heart, and with the development of new techniques and instruments of investigation such as the stethoscope. As poets feared for the health of their own hearts, their poetry embodies concerns about a widespread culture of heartsickness in both form and content. In addition, concerns about the heart's status and actions reflect upon questions of religious faith and doubt, and feed into issues of gender and nationalism. This book argues that it is vital to understand how this wider culture of the heart informed poetry and was in turn influenced by poetic constructs. Individual chapters on Barrett Browning, Arnold, and Tennyson explore the vital presence of the heart in major works by these poets - including Aurora Leigh, 'Empedocles on Etna', In Memoriam, and Maud - while the wide-ranging opening chapters present an argument for the mutual influence of poetry and physiology in the period and trace the development of new theories of rhythm as organic and affective.

Some are More Human Than Others

Author : Stevie Smith
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811211109
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (111 download)

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Download or read book Some are More Human Than Others written by Stevie Smith and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1989 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The British poet Stevie Smith, as her many readers well know, sprinkled her drawings throughout her poetry collections. In this sketchbook, Some Are More Human Than Others, she did the opposite--she spiced her drawings with words. Together they resound with what Robert Lowell described as Smith's "unique and cheerfully gruesome voice" and open up a little world of peculiar experience: something somber and something gay, innocent and cruel--truths of our world trapped off guard.

Novel on Yellow Paper

Author : Stevie Smith
Publisher : Virago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780860681465
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (814 download)

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Download or read book Novel on Yellow Paper written by Stevie Smith and published by Virago Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stevie's alter ego Pompey is young, in love and working as a secretary for the magnificent Sir Phoebus Ullwater, Bt. In between making coffee and typing letters for Sir Phoebus, Pompey scribbles down - on yellow office paper - her quirky thoughts. Her flights of imagination take in Euripedes, sex education, Nazi Germany and the Catholic Church in England, shattering conventions in their wake.

The Holiday

Author : Stevie Smith
Publisher : Virago
ISBN 13 : 0349005834
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book The Holiday written by Stevie Smith and published by Virago. This book was released on 2015-04-02 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celia works at the Ministry in the post-war England of 1949 and lives in a London suburb. Witty, fragile, quixotic, Celia is preoccupied with love - for her friends, her colleagues, her relations, and especially for her adored cousin Casmilus, with whom she goes on holiday to visit Uncle Heber, the vicar. Here they talk endlessly, argue, eat, tell stories, love and hate - moments of wild humour alternating with waves of melancholy as Celia ponders obsessively on the inevitable pain of love. In everything she wrote, Stevie Smith captured the paradox of pain in all human affections - nowhere more so than in this wry, strongly autobiographical tale.

John Ashbery and Anglo-American Exchange

Author : Oli Hazzard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192555081
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book John Ashbery and Anglo-American Exchange written by Oli Hazzard and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-07 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1966, John Ashbery wrote: 'The English language is constantly trying to stave off invasion by the American language; it lives in a state of alert which is reflected to some degree in English poetry.' This book shows how the work of a major post-war American poet has been centrally concerned with questions of national identity and intercultural poetic exchange, by reading crucial episodes in Ashbery's oeuvre in the context of an 'other tradition' of modern English poets he himself has defined. This line runs from the editor of Ashbery's recent Collected Poems, Mark Ford, through Lee Harwood in the late 1960s, F. T. Prince in the 1950s, to 'chronologically the first and therefore most important influence' on his own work, W. H. Auden. Through detailed close readings of the poetry of Ashbery and these English poets, original interviews, and extensive archival research, a new account of Ashbery's aesthetic, and a significant re-mapping of post-war English poetry, is presented. The biographical slant of the book is highly significant, as it reads these writers' poetry and correspondence together for the first time, suggesting how major poetic innovations arose from specific social contexts, from the particulars of relations between poets, and also from a broader climate of Anglo-American exchange as registered by each poet. The book's presentation of the process of poetic influence is attentive to actual exchanges between contemporaries as evidenced in correspondence, as opposed to speculative relationships with dominant figures, and as such represents a departure from many other studies of Ashbery's work. Key themes include 'Englishness' as a national imaginary, the concept of the 'minor', reciprocal influence, and the poetry of coteries. The result is that both Ashbery himself, and the landscape of post-war English poetry, are presented in significantly new lights.

All the Poems: Stevie Smith

Author : Stevie Smith
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811223817
Total Pages : 847 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book All the Poems: Stevie Smith written by Stevie Smith and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 847 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essential edition of one of modern poetry’s most distinctive voices: all Stevie Smith’s flabbergasting poems, now in paperback Stevie Smith is among the most popular British poets of the twentieth century. Her poem “Not Waving but Drowning” has been widely anthologized, and her life was celebrated in the classic movie Stevie. This new and updated edition includes hundreds of works from her thirty-five-year career. In addition to the poems and illustrations from all her published volumes, the Smith scholar Will May discovered never-before-published verses and provides fascinating details about their provenance. Satirical, mischievous, teasing, disarming, Stevie Smith’s poems take readers from comedy to tragedy and back again, while her line drawings are by turns unsettling and beguiling.

Out of the Blue

Author : Simon Armitage
Publisher : eBook Partnership
ISBN 13 : 190758742X
Total Pages : 59 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Out of the Blue written by Simon Armitage and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2014-04-11 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together three verse form pieces each of which was created to be part of a broader form. 'Out of the Blue' itself is a powerful, award-winning, poem-film created five years after the attacks which destroyed the twin towers in NewYork. With a title from a speech of Churchill, 'We May Allow Ourselves a Brief Period of Rejoicing' was a Channel 5 commission for a broadcast celebrating the 60th anniversary of VE Day. The third, 'Cambodia', comes from the radio drama The Violence of Silence set 30 years after the Khmer Rouge

A Good Time was Had by All

Author : Stevie Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Good Time was Had by All written by Stevie Smith and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Signature Pieces

Author : Peggy Kamuf
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501726374
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Signature Pieces written by Peggy Kamuf and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some contemporary approaches to literature still accept the separation of historical, biographical, external concerns from formal, internal ones. On the borderline that lends this division between inside and outside its apparent coherence is signature. In Peggy Kamuf’s view, studying signature will help us to rediscover some of the stakes of literary writing beyond the historicist/formalist opposition. Drawing on Derrida’s extensive work on signatures and proper names, Kamuf investigates authorial signature in key writers from Rousseau to Woolf, as well as the implications of signature for the institutions of authorship and criticism.

Literature and Its Writers

Author : Ann Charters
Publisher : Bedford/st Martins
ISBN 13 : 9780312405113
Total Pages : 1722 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Literature and Its Writers written by Ann Charters and published by Bedford/st Martins. This book was released on 2003-07-01 with total page 1722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

You're History

Author : Lesley Chow
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
ISBN 13 : 1913462358
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (134 download)

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Download or read book You're History written by Lesley Chow and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raucous, sensual and sublime: how twelve pioneering female artists rewrote the rules of pop. From Kate Bush to Nicki Minaj, from Janet Jackson to TLC and Taylor Swift, pop's greatest female pioneers are simply strange: smashing notions of taste and decorum, and replacing them with new ideals of pleasure. Instead of rehashing biographies, Lesley Chow dives deep into the music of these groundbreaking performers, identifying the ecstatic moments in their songs and finding out what makes them unique. You're History is a love letter to pop's most singular achievements, celebrating the innovations of women who are still critically underrated. It's a ride that includes tributes to Chaka Khan, Rihanna, Neneh Cherry, Sade, Shakespears Sister, Azealia Banks, and many more... “The slim, sharp book considers a range of female artists from Janet Jackson and Taylor Swift to TLC and Nicki Minaj, a group that the Australian cultural critic Chow views as ‘outliers, marking moments where the culture might have swerved to incorporate their influence, but somehow contrived not to.’” — New York Times summer reads

Short Flights

Author : James Lough
Publisher : IPG
ISBN 13 : 1936182904
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (361 download)

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Download or read book Short Flights written by James Lough and published by IPG. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compilation of satirical and philosophical aphorisms from modern writers on the cutting edge of their craft A unique anthology that draws together the work and musings of our leading pioneers of short-form writing, this book features writers who take this time-honored literary form to new heights. Concise, wise, and sometimes terse or humorous, aphorisms are short phrases that are often instructional or moralistic. With a brief introductory piece from each author and a generous sampling of each individual's particular take on the aphorism, the reader is presented with a vast trove of wit, wisdom, insight, and inspiration, as well as new ways to look at language, words, and writing. From "Nothing dirtier than old soap" to "He doesn't need imagination—he's got money," the writers expound upon their favorite adages. The contributors range from prize-winning poets Charles Simic and Stephen Dobyns to bestselling authors like James Geary, David Shields, and experimental writers such as Olivia Dresher and Yahia Lababidi. Short Flights is sure to intrigue and delight all lovers of literature, language, and wordplay.

Virtual Play and the Victorian Novel

Author : Timothy Gao
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108944892
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Virtual Play and the Victorian Novel written by Timothy Gao and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-15 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pondering the town he had invented in his novels, Anthony Trollope had 'so realised the place, and the people, and the facts' of Barset that 'the pavement of the city ways are familiar to my footsteps'. After his novels end, William Thackeray wonders where his characters now live, and misses their conversation. How can we understand the novel as a form of artificial reality? Timothy Gao proposes a history of virtual realities, stemming from the imaginary worlds created by novelists like Trollope, Thackeray, Charlotte Bronte, and Charles Dickens. Departing from established historical or didactic understandings of Victorian fiction, Virtual Play and the Victorian Novel recovers the period's fascination with imagined places, people, and facts. This text provides a short history of virtual experiences in literature, four studies of major novelists, and an innovative approach for scholars and students to interpret realist fictions and fictional realities from before the digital age. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Wordsworth's Monastic Inheritance

Author : Jessica Fay
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198816200
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Wordsworth's Monastic Inheritance written by Jessica Fay and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The first extended examination of the influence of monasticism on Wordsworth's writing. Covering the poet's development between 1806 and 1822, it considers how a series of sources describing medieval monastic life in the north of England influenced Wordsworth's thinking about regional attachment, trans-historical community, and national cohesion."--