The Art of the Epigraph by Rosemary Ahern
There are few things a bibliophile loves more than an epigraph. Those intriguing quotations, sayings, snippets of songs and poems that appear just before Chapter One do more than just set the tone for the experience ahead: the epigraph informs us about the author’s sensibility. Are we in the hands of a literalist or a wit? A cynic or a romantic? A writer of great ambition or a miniaturist? The epigraph hints at hidden stories and frequently comes with one of its own. Edited and with original commentary by Rosemary Ahern, The Art of the Epigraph collects epigraphs from across literature. Featuring the cumbersome but amusing prefaces found in early novels like Don Quixote and Gulliver’s Travels to the crisp and clever epigrams that Hemingway and Fitzgerald made fashionable in the twentieth century, this collection traces not only the art of the epigraph, but the history of the book.
Rosemary Ahern is a writer and editor living in New York’s Hudson Valley.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781451693249 |
| ISBN 10 | 1451693249 |
| Title | The Art of the Epigraph |
| Author | Rosemary Ahern |
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| Publisher | Simon & Schuster |
| Year published | 2012-10-30 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
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