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Category : Anecdotes
Languages : en
Pages : 170
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Yorick's Jests
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.
Yorick's Sentimental Journey Continued
Author: John Hall-StevensonPublisher:
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Category : British
Languages : en
Pages : 154
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Yorick's World
Author: Peter CawsPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 052091287X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Peter Caws provides a fresh and often iconoclastic treatment of some of the most vexing problems in the philosophy of science: explanation, induction, causality, evolution, discovery, artificial intelligence, and the social implications of technological rationality. Caws's work has been shaped equally by the insights of Continental philosophy and a concern with scientific practice. In these twenty-eight essays spanning more than a quarter of a century, he ranges from discussions of the work of French philosopher Gaston Bachelard, to relations between science and surrealism, to the concept of intentionality, to the limits of quantitative description. A lively mix of history, theory, speculation, and analysis, Yorick's World presents a vision of science that includes human history and social life. It will interest professional philosophers and scientists, and at the same time its directness will make it readily accessible to nontechnical readers.
Yorick's Budget; Or, Repository of Wit, Humour, and Sentiment
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Category : English wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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Sterne, Tristram, Yorick
Author: Melvyn NewPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1611495717
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Sterne, Tristram, Yorick: Tercentenary Essays on Laurence Sterne derives from the Laurence Sterne Tercentenary Conference held at Royal Holloway, University of London, on July 8–11, 2013. It was attended by some eighty scholars from fourteen countries; the conference heard more than sixty papers. The organizers invited participants to submit revised versions of their contributions for this volume, and the thirteen selected exhibit, it is hoped, the defining features both of the conference and of Sterne studies at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It is worth remarking that the selected authors represent seven countries; that Sterne may well be the most internationally accepted of all eighteenth-century English authors is certainly a claim worthy of a sentimental traveler. This collection recognizes three faces of Sterne, beginning with several biographical essays examining, respectively, his celebrity status, family life, politics, and philosophy. The second face is that of Tristram, studied from vantage points provided by ethics, linguistics, gender studies, and comparative literature. The final group of essays examines the face of Yorick as the protagonist of A Sentimental Journey, beginning with an ethnographic study of relationships, moving through questions of identity, and concluding with the possible future of literary studies—a return to aesthetics.
Yorick's Sentimental Journey
Author: Laurence SternePublisher:
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Category : British
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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Satire, Comedy and Tragedy
Author: Richard C. RaymondPublisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 1839988649
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
The first four chapters of the book provide a close reading of the satiric, comic, and tragic action of Laurence Sterne’s novel in the context of criticism from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Chapter 5 provides a summary of Chapters 1–4, focusing on Sterne’s purpose in revising satiric plot structures and in blurring the lines between fiction and autobiography. Chapters 6–8 then examine Sterne’s themes from TristramShandythat inform his letters, sermons, and other fiction; Chapter 9 discusses the international reception of TristramShandy and argues for using writing-to-learn strategies to teach Sterne’s greatest novel to undergraduate and graduate students.
Author: Laurence Sterne
Author: John Hall-Stevenson