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Satire, Comedy and Tragedy
This book provides a closereading of the satiric, comic, and tragic plot structures of TristramShandy and then traces the themes that inform Laurence Sterne's greatest novel to his letters, sermons, and other writings. The book also argues for a writing-to-learn approach to teaching Sterne's recurring themes.
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De narices extravagantes y otras bromas de la naturaleza: la estructura del strange loop y la defensa de las líneas curvas en el “episodio de las narices” de Tristram Shandy
“The Tale of Slawkenbergius”, also known as the “Episode of the Nose”, is one of the most recognised and quoted passages from Tristram Shandy (Sterne 1759-1767). This short story from the fourth volume of Sterne’s novel has received a great deal of attention in the specialised bibliography. However, the studies so far published analyse the story as an isolated episode and concentrate mainly on the use of irony, double entendre and puns as a means of alluding to sexual issues (Gallagher 2018; Walsh 2009). The aim of this paper is to study “The Tale of Slawkenbergius” no longer as a humorous representation of the grotesque, but as a metaliterary manifestation of Sterne’s poetics, thus relating the tale to the structure of the novel. The way in which Sterne uses the device of the “strange loop” in this passage to express his subscription to Hogarth’s aesthetics and to Hogarth’s ideas about the “lines of beauty and grace” will be determined. It will also relate the apology for the beauty of a colossal-nosed, disproportionate hero that is established in this episode to the defence of “deformed” art forms, removed from neoclassical aesthetics, that Tristram establishes throughout his narrative.
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Thinking in Circles
Many famous antique texts are misunderstood and many others have been completely dismissed, all because the literary style in which they were written is unfamiliar today. So argues Mary Douglas in this controversial study of ring composition, a technique which places the meaning of a text in the middle, framed by a beginning and ending in parallel. To read a ring composition in the modern linear fashion is to misinterpret it, Douglas contends, and today's scholars must reevaluate important antique texts from around the world.
Found in the Bible and in writings from as far afield as Egypt, China, Indonesia, Greece, and Russia, ring composition is too widespread to have come from a single source. Does it perhaps derive from the way the brain works? What is its function in social contexts? The author examines ring composition, its principles and functions, in a cross-cultural way. She focuses on ring composition in Homer'sIliad, the Bible's book of Numbers,and, for a challenging modern example, Laurence Sterne'sTristram Shandy, developing a persuasive argument for reconstruing famous books and rereading neglected ones.
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Sterne, tristram, yorick
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.
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Literary Adaptation and Digital Humanities: Laurence Sterne and Sterneana
Literary afterlives occupied a significant place in the cultural life of the eighteenth century and the Romantic period. Laurence Sterne's work, especially Tristram Shandy and A Sentimental Journey , attracted diverse and extensive adaptation in various forms and media, collectively known as \"Sterneana.\" Digital Humanities initiatives have provided unprecedented opportunities for exploring literary afterlives, bringing obscure and rare materials to light that enrich understanding of adaptation as a broad phenomenon and its role in this period. This article discusses online resources that bring Sterne-related material to new audiences, focusing on Laurence Sterne and Sterneana, a dataset hosted by Cambridge Digital Library.
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‘The Figure of the Old with the Pathetic Tenderness of the New’: An Early Reading of Sterne’s A Sentimental Journey (1768)
This essay introduces the Reed ASJ as a new primary source for the early reception of Laurence Sterne’s second novel, A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1768) and draws on recent developments in marginalia studies to locate it within its contemporary historical context. This framework informs discussion of the reader’s possible identity, their use of annotation, and wide-ranging responses to the novel such as comparative readings with Tristram Shandy (1759–1767), assessments of Sterne’s religiosity, and the depiction of French society and customs. Also explored are the reader’s strong interventions with passages in the novel that were beneath their expectations. And so, the recovery of the Reed ASJ suggests fresh possibilities for the reinvestigation of ASJ’s inherent paradoxes, its disputed sincerity in the sentimental mode and relationship to genre that fuel the novel’s ongoing popularity.
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The Shandean and the Florida Edition: Toward a New Biography of Laurence Sterne
Ideally, authors enter the pantheon of the classics because of the essential mystery of their genius rather than the known existential events of their lives (or times), but that has never prevented even astute readers from wanting information concerning the bodily soil that germinated any particular great work of art. One might even suggest that an oeuvre that fails to generate some biographical context, even if only wild surmises, is almost always doomed to failure; witness the plethora of biographical accounts of Shakespeare to the extent that modern readers can today ask their phones where Shakespeare lived in London and be quite overwhelmed with relevant (and irrelevant) information, all almost instantaneously. This interplay of life and work is readily apparent in the fortunes of Laurence Sterne. Viewed as an Anglican cleric with a penchant for marital infidelity and bawdry, his writings survived the nineteenth century primarily because the major authors of that century continued to read him and to allow him to influence their own writings, from Byron in Don Juan to Dickens in Pickwick Papers and Carlyle in Sartor Resartus.
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