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Aphoristic Modernity <<UUNN>> Literary Modernism Series Editor Gernot Wimmer (University of Vienna, Austria) Editorial Board William Egginton (Johns Hopkins Krieger School of Arts & Sciences, usa) Patrick Fortmann (University of Illinois, usa) Roland Innerhofer (University of Vienna, Austria) Cindy K. Renker (University of North Texas, usa) Simonetta Sanna (Università degli Studi di Sassari, Italy) Andrew J. Webber (Churchill College, University of Cambridge, uk) volume 6 The titles published in this series are listed at brill.com/limo <UN> Aphoristic Modernity 1880 to the Present Edited by Kostas Boyiopoulos Michael Shallcross leiden | boston <UN> The Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available online at http://catalog.loc.gov LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2019026749 Typeface for the Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic scripts: “Brill”. See and download: brill.com/brill-typeface. ISSN 2405-9315 ISBN 978-90-04-40004-7 (hardback) ISBN 978-90-04-40006-1 (e-book) Copyright 2020 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands. Koninklijke Brill NV incorporates the imprints Brill, Brill Hes & De Graaf, Brill Nijhoff, Brill Rodopi, Brill Sense, Hotei Publishing, mentis Verlag, Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh and Wilhelm Fink Verlag. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. Authorization to photocopy items for internal or personal use is granted by Koninklijke Brill NV provided that the appropriate fees are paid directly to The Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Suite 910, Danvers, MA 01923, USA. Fees are subject to change. This book is printed on acid-free paper and produced in a sustainable manner. <UN> In loving memory of Michael O’Neill 1953 – 2018 and Don Walls 1929 – 2018 ∵ <UN> Contents Acknowledgements ix List of Illustrations x Notes on Contributors xi Introduction. Like a Burr: Aphoristic Writing and Modernity 1 Kostas Boyiopoulos and Michael Shallcross 1 Aphoristic Gaps and Theories of the Image 21 Peter Robinson 2 ‘A Ruin Amidst Ruins’: Modernity, Literary Aphorisms, and Romantic Fragments 37 Mark Sandy 3 Social Notes: Oscar Wilde, Francis Bacon, and the Medium of Aphorism 53 Simon Reader 4 Brilliancy and Mimicry: Epigrammatic Wit in Oscar Wilde, Max Beerbohm, and Ada Leverson 73 Kostas Boyiopoulos 5 We Moderns: Katherine Mansfield and Edwin Muir in the New Age 94 Chris Mourant 6 ‘You must remain broken up’: Wyndham Lewis, Laughter, and the Subjective Aphorism 113 Alan Munton 7 Knowing Nothing: Wilde and Beckett Deranging the Aphorism 133 Rebekah Scott 8 Aphoristic Interruption in Stevie Smith 158 Noreen Masud <UN> viii Contents 9 Stepping into the Same River Twice: Jorge Luis Borges’s Aphoristic Short Stories 178 Baylee Brits 10 Aphorisms and Archipelagos: Relationality in Modernist Studies 190 Maebh Long 11 Epigrammatic Writing and Remix Culture: Memes and Mastery 206 Francesca Coppa 12 ‘I saw a sign that said “Drink Canada Dry”’: Alcoholic Epigrams, Modern Marketing, and the Value of Moderation 224 Michael Shallcross Bibliography 251 Index 272 <UN> Acknowledgements This essay collection emerged from a conference held at the University of York in July 2015. We would like to thank all of our excellent speakers, many of whom have contributed to this collection, and the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York for sponsoring the event. We also wish to express grateful thanks to Masja Horn at Brill for her patience and faith in the project, and to Thalien Colenbrander for her skill and professionalism in guiding the book to production. Many thanks to Oxford University Press for permission to republish a slightly amended version of Simon Reader’s article, ‘Social Notes: Oscar Wilde, Francis Bacon, and the Medium of Aphorism’, from the Journal of Victorian Culture (18.4, 2013: 453–471). Thanks also to the William Andrews Clark Memo- rial Library for granting permission to reproduce text and images from Wilde’s manuscripts, and to the McFarlin Library at the University of Tulsa for permis- sion to reproduce text from the manuscripts of Stevie Smith. Extracts taken from Sweeney Agonistes, copyright The Estate of T.S. Eliot; ‘From the Greek’, ‘On the Death of a German Philosopher’, ‘If I lie down’, ‘Childhood and Interrup- tion’, ‘Thoughts about the Person from Porlock’, copyright The Estate of Stevie Smith. Reproduced by permission of Faber & Faber Ltd and New Directions Publishing Corp. Finally, Kostas would like to thank Yoonjoung Choi for her love and unwa- vering support. Michael would like to thank Tracy Knowles for her forbearance through many evenings lost to the laptop, and Thomas Shallcross, who intro- duced himself to the world just as the project was nearing completion, and whose smile is more eloquent than the most finely wrought aphorism. <UN> Illustrations 3.1 The inside front cover of Wilde’s ‘Notebook on Philosophy’ 65 3.2 The name ‘Bacon’ crossed out, from the Oxford Notebooks 68 11.1 The @oscarwilde Twitter account 212 11.2 The Gutenberg Parenthesis 214 11.3 ‘Bitch I might be’ 216 11.4 Gucci Mane meme 218 11.5 Further variations on the ‘Bitch I might be’ meme 219 11.6 L.H.O.O.Q., Marcel Duchamp 220 12.1 Ernest Hemingway advertising Ballantine Ale 230 12.2 John Steinbeck advertising Ballantine Ale 231
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