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Stevie Smith and the Aphorism
Author | : Noreen Masud |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2022-12-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780192649249 |
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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 Drawing on hitherto unpublished archival material, this project argues that Smith's texts resist analysis because, like the aphorisms embedded throughout them, they offer and exemplify a mode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.
Stevie Smith and the Aphorism
Author | : Noreen Masud |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2023-03-22 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780192895899 |
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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.
Aphoristic Modernity
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2019-10-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9789004400061 |
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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.
Some are More Human Than Others
Author | : Stevie Smith |
Publsiher | : New Directions Publishing |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 081121110X |
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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 |
Publsiher | : Virago Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0860681467 |
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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 |
Publsiher | : Virago |
Total Pages | : 185 |
Release | : 2015-04-02 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780349005836 |
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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.
A Good Time was Had by All
Author | : Stevie Smith |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 1937 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : UVA:X000065461 |
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Boys in Khaki Girls in Print
Author | : Jane Potter |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199279861 |
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Generously illustrated, Boys in Khaki, Girls in Print is a scholarly yet accessible illumination of a hitherto untapped resource of women's writing and makes an important new contribution to the study of the literature of the Great War."--BOOK JACKET.