Stevie Smith and the Aphorism - Hard Language

Explores the literature of Stevie Smith with particular emphasis on the importance of the aphorism: a short, witty saying which expresses a general truth. It argues that the aphorism offers Smith a means of managing emotional statements in her work, enabling her to make, and make light of, sincere or dramatic communications.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Introduction


• 1: Unnecessary Aphorisms


• 2: Aphoristic Messages, Too Late


• 3: Proverbs through Fairytale


• 4: Captions and the 'Appropriate'


• 5: Fragments 'Going On'


• Conclusion: To Go On


• Bibliography

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Noreen Masud is a Lecturer in Twentieth Century Literature at the University of Bristol and an AHRC/BBC New Generation Thinker. She works on aphorism, flatness, puppets, and nonsense.

Zusammenfassung

Explores the literature of Stevie Smith with particular emphasis on the importance of the aphorism: a short, witty saying which expresses a general truth. It argues that the aphorism offers Smith a means of managing emotional statements in her work, enabling her to make, and make light of, sincere or dramatic communications.

Zusatztext

Masud has given her readers a coherent and rich interpretive framework for a poet whose combination of flatness, lightness, weight, and excess have proven difficult to explain. And she has delivered this in refreshingly witty, figuratively lively prose-the work is such a pleasure to read.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Noreen Masud, Noreen (Lecturer in Twentieth Century Liter Masud, Noreen (Lecturer in Twentieth Century Literature Masud
• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 22.12.2022
• EAN: 9780192895899
• ISBN: 978-0-19-289589-9
• Seiten: 204
• Serie: Oxford English Monographs
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft; LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Mystery & Detective, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: poetry and poets