Laurence Sterne / Manfred Pfister.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pfister, Manfred.

Contributor:

British Council.

Geoffrey Day Collection of Laurence Sterne (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Writers and their work

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768--Criticism and interpretation.

Sterne, Laurence.

Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Penn Provenance:

Day, Geoffrey (former owner)

Physical Description:

x, 128 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Devon : Northcote House in association with the British Council, 2001.

Summary:

"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 storyline 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 reads Sterne's work in the light of modern literary theory as befits an artist before his time."--Jacket.

Contents:

1. Swiftly Sterneward

2. Life and Opinions

3. Writing the Hobby-Horse

4. A Cock and Bull Story

5. English Transports and French Frictions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 111-121) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired from Geoffrey Day in 2018.

ISBN:

074630837X

9780746308370

OCLC:

52547416