The long and short of it : from aphorism to novel / Gary Saul Morson.
This book explores the family of very short literary genres-- aphorisms, witticisms, wise sayings, and other short forms, from the perspective of their world views and the devices that express them.
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Stanford, California :
Stanford University Press,
[2012]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: the long and short of it
- Genre and brevity
- Apothegms
- Witticism and witlessism
- Wisdom and counter-wisdom
- Two kinds of trial
- Prosaic apothegms
- Conclusion : the great conversation.