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Languages : en
Pages : 342
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The Sermons of Mr. Yorick. Published by Laurence Sterne, A.M
Author: The Sermons of Mr. Yorick, Published by Laurence Sterne,...
Author: Laurence SterneThe Works of Laurence Sterne, A. M.: The sermons of Mr. Yorick
Author: Laurence SternePublisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 470
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Laurence Sterne
Author: Arthur CashPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000784517
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 373
Book Description
First published in 1986, Laurence Sterne follows Sterne’s life and career from the moment of recognition brought by the successful publication of the first two volumes of Tristram Shandy, to the publication in 1768 of A Sentimental Journey and its author’s death three weeks later. Sterne, a consumptive who knew that he would meet an early death, was determined to pack into his life all the writing, adventure and play he could, believing implicitly ‘that every time a man smiles, -- but much more so, when he laughs, that it adds something to this Fragment of Life.’ We see him in his study at Shandy Hall, among the philosophes in Paris, with his family at Toulouse and Montpellier, preaching before the villagers of Coxworld or before the duke of York, and entertaining the bluestockings, the intellectuals, the wits and rakes of 18th century London. We witness Sterne’s struggle, after sailing through the early volumes of Tristram Shandy, to find ways to continue or complete the novel. We watch the disintegration of any meaningful relationship with his wife, his secret amours, his public sentimental flirtations and his hopeless passion for Eliza Draper. This book will be of interest to students of literature, literary history as well as to any casual reader of Sterne’s novels.
The Sermons of Mr. Yorick. Published by Laurence Sterne, A.M
Author: Yorick's Congregation
Author: Martha F. BowdenPublisher: University of Delaware Press
ISBN: 9780874139556
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
When Mr. and Mrs. Shandy stroll out to watch Toby and Trim march in formation to the Widow Wadman's house, they use a familiar occurrence to gauge the day of the week. The sight of Mr. Yorick's congregation emerging from the parish church tells them it is a Sunday; Mrs. Shandy provides the more specific information that it is Sacrament Sunday, which tells Mr. Shandy that it is the first Sunday of the month. Modern readers may slip over this brief exchange, but it is the gateway to a series of inquiries whose answers the original readers of Tristram Shandy would have taken for granted. Drawing on modern historical research and eighteenth-century texts, Yorick's Congregation: The Church of England in the Time of Laurence Sterne answers these inquiries.
Understanding Metalepsis
Author: Julian HanebeckPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110515253
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Understanding Metalepsis provides a state-of-the-art overview of the narratological concept of metalepsis and develops new ways of investigating the forms and functions of metaleptic narratives. Informed by a hermeneutic perspective, this study offers not only an account of the complexities that characterize the process of understanding metaleptic phenomena, but also metatheoretical insights into the hermeneutics of narratology.
The Sermons of Mr. Yorick
Author: AnonymousPublisher:
ISBN: 9783337691998
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Languages : en
Pages : 320
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Laurence Sterne
Author: Manfred PfisterPublisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 074630837X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 137
Book Description
Despite the immense popularity of Laurence Sterne's work during his lifetime, his contribution to the novel form and experimentalism has only been acknowledged since his death. His contemporaries Richardson and Goldsmith denounced his archaic methods and took offence at his playful irreverence but his oddity is never accidental nor perverse; it is the strategy of an inventive, thoughtful, comic talent. Tristram Shandy, perhaps his best loved work, defies convention at every turn, distributing narrative content across a bafflingly idiosyncratic time-scheme interrupted by digressions, authorial comments and interferences with the printed fabric of the book. This comically fragmented story line is a reaction against the linear narratives of Fielding and Richardson; aiming instead at a realistic impressionism, a shape determined by the association of ideas. This study critiques Sterne's work in the light of modern literary theory, questioning whether he was an artist before his time.
The Cambridge Companion to Laurence Sterne
Author: Thomas KeymerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521849721
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 223
Book Description
This Companion provides essays on the author of Tristram Shandy, his eighteenth-century context, his oeuvre and its reception.