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Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy : a casebook / edited by Thomas Keymer.
Van Pelt Library PR3714.T73 L385 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Casebooks in criticism
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768. Life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman.
- Sterne, Laurence.
- Experimental fiction, English--History and criticism.
- Experimental fiction, English.
- Narration (Rhetoric)--History--18th century.
- Narration (Rhetoric).
- History.
- Human body in literature.
- Authorship in literature.
- Infants in literature.
- Fetus in literature.
- Physical Description:
- x, 264 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
- Summary:
- Casebooks in Criticism offer analytical and interpretive frameworks for understanding key texts in world literature and film. Each casebook reprints documents relating to a work's historical context and reception, presents the best critical studies, and, when possible, features an interview with the author. Accessible and informative to scholars, students, and nonspecialist readers alike, the books in this series provide a wide range of critical and informative commentaries on major texts.
- Contents:
- Part I Genres, Traditions, Intertexts
- Swift, Sterne, and the Skeptical Tradition / J. T. Parnell 23
- Sterne and the "New Species of Writing" / Thomas Keymer 50
- Part II Public Performance and Print Culture
- Laurence Sterne and Literary Celebrity in 1760 / Peter M. Briggs 79
- Tristram Shandy as Aesthetic Object / Peter J. de Voogd 108
- Part III Language of the Body
- Tristram Shandy and the Wound of Language / Ross King 123
- Consuming Time: Narrative and Disease in Tristram Shandy / Clark Lawlor 147
- Part IV Narrative, Reading, and Meaning
- Reader as Hobby-horse in Tristram Shandy / Helen Ostovich 171
- Sterne and the Narrative of Determinateness / Melvyn New 191
- Part V Politics and History
- Sterne and Irregular Oratory / Jonathan Lamb 213
- Tristram Shandy and the Appositeness of War / Madeleine Descargues 240.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-264).
- ISBN:
- 0195175603
- 0195175611
- OCLC:
- 61253869
- Publisher Number:
- 9780195175608
- 9780195175615
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