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The Oxford Book of Aphorisms
Author | : John Gross |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press on Demand |
Total Pages | : 383 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 0192804561 |
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Gathers witty quotations about nature, religion, fear, hope, fame, wealth, politics, marriage, happiness, knowledge, language, and death
The Oxford Book of Aphorisms
Author | : John Gross |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 019282015X |
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This anthology demonstrates to the full how brilliantly the aphorist can illumine the hidden truth, or lay bare the ironies of existence.
The Oxford Book of Aphorisms
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 383 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Aphorisms and apothegms |
ISBN | : OCLC:233654966 |
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The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes
Author | : John Gross |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780199543410 |
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In The New Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes, master anthologist John Gross brings together a delectable smorgasbord of literary tales, offering striking new insight into some of the most important writers in history. Many of the anecdotes here are funny, others are touching, outrageous, sinister, inspiring, or downright weird. They show writers from Chaucer to Bob Dylan acting both unpredictably and deeply in character. The range is wide--this is a book which finds room for Milton and Shakespeare, Mark Twain and Walt Whitman, Kurt Vonnegut and P. G. Wodehouse, Chinua Achebe and Salman Rushdie, James Baldwin and Tom Wolfe. It is also a book in which you can find out which great historian's face was once mistaken for a baby's bottom, which film star experienced a haunting encounter with Virginia Woolf not long before her death, and what Agatha Christie really thought of her popular character Hercule Poirot. It is in short an unrivalled collection of literary gossip offering intimate glimpses into the lives of authors ranging from Shakespeare to Philip Roth--a book not just for lovers of literature, but for anyone with a taste for the curiosities of human nature.
The Faber Book of Aphorisms
Author | : Wystan Hugh Auden,Louis Kronenberger |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 405 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Aphorisms and apothegms |
ISBN | : 0571095194 |
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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.
A Theory of the Aphorism
Author | : Andrew Hui |
Publsiher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2020-11-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780691210759 |
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Aphorisms-- or philosophical short sayings--appear everywhere, from Confucius to Twitter, the Buddha to the Bible, Heraclitus to Nietzsche. Yet despite this ubiquity, the aphorism is the least studied literary form. What are its origins? How did it develop? How do religious or philosophical movements arise from the enigmatic sayings of charismatic leaders? And why do some of our most celebrated modern philosophers use aphoristic fragments to convey their deepest ideas? In A Theory of the Aphorism, Andrew Hui crisscrosses histories and cultures to answer these questions and more. With clarity and precision, Hui demonstrates how aphorisms-- ranging from China, Greece, and biblical antiquity to the European Renaissance and nineteenth century--encompass sweeping and urgent programs of thought. Constructed as literary fragments, aphorisms open new lines of inquiry and horizons of interpretation. In this way, aphorisms have functioned as ancestors, allies, or antagonists to grand systems of philosophy. Encompassing literature, philology, and philosophy, the history of the book and the history of reading, A Theory of the Aphorism invites us to reflect anew on what it means to think deeply about this pithiest of literary forms.
Essays and Aphorisms
Author | : Arthur Schopenhauer |
Publsiher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2004-08-26 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780141921754 |
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One of the greatest philosophers of the nineteenth century, Schopenhauer (1788-1860) believed that human action is determined not by reason but by 'will' - the blind and irrational desire for physical existence. This selection of his writings on religion, ethics, politics, women, suicide, books and many other themes is taken from Schopenhauer's last work, Parerga and Paralipomena, which he published in 1851. These pieces depict humanity as locked in a struggle beyond good and evil, and each individual absolutely free within a Godless world, in which art, morality and self-awareness are our only salvation. This innovative - and pessimistic - view has proved powerfully influential upon philosophy and art, directly affecting the work of Nietzsche, Wittgenstein and Wagner among others.
The Oxford Book of Essays
Author | : John Gross |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 680 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780199556557 |
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The essay is one of the richest of literary forms. Its most obvious characteristics are freedom, informality, and the personal touch--though it can also find room for poetry, satire, fantasy, and sustained argument. All these qualities, and many others, are on display in The Oxford Book of Essays. The most wide-ranging collection of its kind to appear for many years, it includes 140 essays by 120 writers: classics, curiosities, meditations, diversions, old favorites, recent examples that deserve to be better known. A particularly welcome feature is the amount of space allotted to American essayists, from Benjamin Franklin to John Updike and beyond. This is an anthology that opens with wise words about the nature of truth, and closes with a consideration of the novels of Judith Krantz. Some of the other topics discussed in its pages are anger, pleasure, Gandhi, Beau Brummell, wasps, party-going, gangsters, plumbers, Beethoven, potato crisps, the importance of being the right size, and the demolition of Westminster Abbey. It contains some of the most eloquent writing in English, and some of the most entertaining.