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Anecdote. An anecdote[ 1][ 2] is "a story with a point", [ 3] such as to communicate an abstract idea about a person, place, or thing through the concrete details of a short narrative or to characterize by delineating a specific quirk or trait. [ 4]
Category. : Anecdotes. Articles relating to anecdotes (stories with a point), the communication of abstract ideas about a person, place, or thing through the concrete details of a short narrative or characterization by delineating a specific quirk or trait. Anecdotes may be real or fictional; the anecdotal digression is a common feature of ...
Alexander visits Diogenes in Corinth - Diogenes asks him to stand out of his sun (engraving) The meeting of Diogenes of Sinope and Alexander the Great is one of the most discussed anecdotes from philosophical history. Many versions of it exist. The most popular relate it as evidence of Diogenes' disregard for authority, wealth, and decorum. [ 1]
Literature. A narrative, story, or tale is any account of a series of related events or experiences, [ 1][ 2] whether non-fictional ( memoir, biography, news report, documentary, travelogue, etc.) or fictional ( fairy tale, fable, legend, thriller, novel, etc.). [ 3][ 4][ 5] Narratives can be presented through a sequence of written or spoken ...
Jessie Coulson, in the introduction to a 1966 Penguin publication that includes the story, states of "A Nasty Story": Its theme is the terrible gulf between a man's idea of himself, his ideals, and his motives, and what they prove to be in the harsh light of reality.
Earthy Anecdote. " Earthy Anecdote " [1] is the first poem in Wallace Stevens' first book of poetry Harmonium (1923). The passage of a group of "bucks" is impeded by a "firecat". There is little consensus about its meaning, even after 100 years of critical attention, and Stevens himself refused to provide one. On the surface, his poem describes ...
Anecdote for Fathers. " Anecdote for Fathers " (full title: " Anecdote for Fathers, Shewing how the practice of Lying may be taught " ) is a poem by William Wordsworth first published in his 1798 collection titled Lyrical Ballads, which was co-authored by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. A later version of the poem from 1845 contains a Latin epigraph ...
The Oxford Book of Theatrical Anecdotes. The Oxford Book of Theatrical Anecdotes is an anthology of theatrical anecdotes comprising four-hundred years of world theatre history, from Shakespeare to the present day, edited by "lifelong theatre-lover Gyles Brandreth in the Oxford tradition." [1]