Gary Morson

The Long and Short of It

From Aphorism to Novel

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In clear and witty writing, Morson offers first serious study of the many kinds of aphorisms, their relation to longer works, and the philosophical wisdom they offer.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Stanford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. April 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9780804781695
• ISBN-10: 0804781699
• Artikelnr.: 34951176

Autorenporträt

Gary Saul Morson is the Frances Hooper Professor of the Arts and Humanities at Northwestern University. He has published nine books on major Russian authors, the human experience of time, and the cultural role of quotations, most recently The Words of Others: From Quotation to Culture (2011). Morson received a lifetime achievement award by the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and Eastern European Languages and his Narrative and Freedom: The Shadows of Time (1994) won the René Wellek Prize from the American Comparative Literature Association.