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Author : John Gross
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 49,42 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780192804563
Gathers witty quotations about nature, religion, fear, hope, fame, wealth, politics, marriage, happiness, knowledge, language, and death
Author : John Gross
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 15,86 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780192820150
This anthology demonstrates to the full how brilliantly the aphorist can illumine the hidden truth, or lay bare the ironies of existence.
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Publisher :
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 35,18 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Aphorisms and apothegms
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Author : Ibn 'Ata'illah Al-Iskandari
Publisher : The Other Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 26,61 MB
Release : 2018-05-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9675062614
This book is one of the more widely distributed works of Ibn 'Ata'illah and serves as an ethical guide to those seeking God. It is a collection of short spiritual sayings each containing profound meaning driven from the Qur'an and Sunnah, and deals with issues related to tawhid, ethics and day-to-day conduct.
Author : John Gross
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 34,82 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0199543410
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.
Author : Wystan Hugh Auden
Publisher : Barnes & Noble Publishing
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 21,51 MB
Release : 1962
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780880290562
"More than 3000 selections from more than 400 authors" -- Dust jacket.
Author : Andrew Hui
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,36 MB
Release : 2020-11-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0691210756
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.
Author : Wystan Hugh Auden
Publisher :
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 30,82 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Aphorisms and apothegms
ISBN : 9780571095193
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 : Ben Grant
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 47,48 MB
Release : 2016-05-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1134104588
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.
Author : Walter Gratzer
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 45,28 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780198609407
A collection of fascinating stories, entertainingly told, revealing the human face of science. Eurekas and Euphorias encompasses some 200 anecdotes brilliantly illustrating scientists in all their shapes: the obsessive and the dilettantish, the genial, the envious, the preternaturally brilliant and the slow-witted who sometimes see further in the end, the open-minded and the intolerant, recluses and arrivistes. Told with wit and relish by Walter Gratzer, here are stories to delight, astonish, instruct, and most especially, entertain the general reader, scientist and non-scientist alike.