Aphorisms for the Uncommon Reader

by William Melvin Gardner

Overview

A gift book organized into two parts:

Part I: 3300-word introduction that includes:

• detailed examination of this most concise form of the literary arts.
• differentiation of aphorisms from adages, epigrams, maxims, platitudes, and other types of quotable assertions.
• profiles of the most prolific modern aphorists (e.g., Ambrose Bierce, Antonio Porchia, Eric Hoffer, Stanislaw Lec, James Richardson, James Guida, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, and others).

Part II: 400 original aphorisms, with twenty-five B/W original illustrations.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780976187530
Publisher:	Logica Books
Publication date:	07/15/2020
Pages:	158
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.37(d)

About the Author

William Melvin Gardner was born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1940 and grew up on his family's farm on Lassiter Mountain. He served in the USAF and then earned a Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa. He taught graduate and undergraduate psychology courses at Jacksonville State University and conducted research in comparative psychology, learning, sensory disorders, and academic cheating. After retiring, he wrote essays on automotive history and compiled an Encyclopedia of eight-cylinder engine. He is best known for his book Handling Truth: Navigating the Riptides of Rhetoric, Religion, Reason, and Research (2012). He lives with his wife, mystery novelist G. P. Gardner, in a small town on Mobile Bay.

Table of Contents

Part I: Aphorisms and Aphorists

Part II: Aphorisms for the Ucommon Reader

Editorial Reviews

This 155-page volume begins with an introduction to aphorisms and aphorists, and concludes with a collection of 400 of William Melvin Gardner’s original aphorisms. The book includes 24 illustrations and makes an ideal gift for your witty friends.

Aphorisms can be observations, instructions, or definitions distinguished by brevity, wit, insight, sweeping implication, and often include a twist.They have been described as the broadest and briefest form of the literary arts.

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