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Paradoxes and Oxymorons by John Ashbery

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Author Biography

Name: John (Lawrence) Ashbery
Variant Name: John (Lawrence) Ashbery, John Lawrence Ashbery, Jonas Berry
Birth Date: July 28, 1927
Place of Birth: Rochester, New York
Nationality: American
Gender: Male

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Biography of John (Lawrence) Ashbery
19381 words, approx. 64.6 pages
In a 1961 piece for ArtNews on the murmuring intimacy of Henri Michaux's work, John Ashbery singled out this statement of Michaux's aims: Instead of one vision which excludes others, I would have liked to draw the moments that, placed side by side, go to...
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Biography of John (Lawrence) Ashbery
4189 words, approx. 14 pages
If one word had to be used to describe John Ashbery's poetry, it would have to be that it is difficult--difficult to read, difficult to understand, and sometimes difficult to like. His admirers and detractors alike concede the point. But Ashbery's poetry...


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Mosaic (Winnipeg)
Challenging prescriptions for discourse: Seneca's use of paradox and oxymoron.
03/01/1997: 8,138 words, approx. 27 pages
In the 1930s two works appeared which profoundly shaped the way in which philosophy in the Anglo-American world would be written: Rudolf Carnap's "Uberwindung der Metaphysik durch logische Analyse der Sprache" (1932) - "The Elimination of Metaphysics through Logical Analysis of Language" -...
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Oxymoron
01/06/1990: 752 words, approx. 3 pages
William Branigin's Dec. 26 news story about Manuel Noriega's lair of magic was most interesting, but when he quoted a voodoo expert proclaiming that it was possible for a "good Catholic to practice both Santeria and Palo Mayombe," I had to wonder who had...
 


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