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1. Epigram 2019

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   Dumitrescu, Irina

   New Literary History, Vol. 50, Issue 3, p. 375.

   Death Darkness for the vexed Wind to blow away the chaff And a pretext For an epitaph.4 If the Greek tradition is known for being commemorative and the Roman satirical, then it is not surprising th... Read more

   Death Darkness for the vexed Wind to blow away the chaff And a pretext For an epitaph.4 If the Greek tradition is known for being commemorative and the Roman satirical, then it is not surprising that so many epigrams combine these two energies by poking fun at the profession most efficient at ushering us into the grave. The satisfaction of curiosity and the fairness of the object melt into a third, unnamed but pleasurable emotion.9 Lessing's theory has too much of the sublime about it, but it reveals something essential about the epigram: an alternation of contraction and release, systole and diastole, gets the blood coursing. [...]the practice of epigrammatic duels, which kill off both participants and die, in their relevance, with them. William Fitzgerald has asked of epigrams written on a specific occasion, and subsequently anthologized: "Have they been uprooted from the soil from which they draw their life, or have they rather been universalized, raised to a higher power for a different kind of audience, the anonymous lector who is our forbear?"11 We might say that the epigram's brevity, so deadly to it otherwise, makes it easier to preserve in florilegia, edited collections, even web compilations of bon mots. Read less

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2. Epigram 2019

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   Dumitrescu, Irina

   New Literary History, Vol. 50, Issue 3, pp. 375 - 379.

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3. Epigram 2019

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   Dumitrescu, Irina

   New Literary History, Vol. 50, Issue 3, pp. 375 - 379.

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