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Laurence Sterne : Tristram Shandy / Wolfgang Iser ; translated by David Henry Wilson.
LIBRA PR3714.T73 I84 1988
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Iser, Wolfgang.
- Series:
- Landmarks of world literature
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768. Life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman.
- Sterne, Laurence.
- Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768. Tristram Shandy.
- Life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman (Sterne, Laurence).
- Local Subjects:
- Sterne, Laurence, 1713-1768. Tristram Shandy.
- Penn Provenance:
- Day, Geoffrey (former owner)
- Physical Description:
- vii, 135 pages ; 21 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1988.
- Contents:
- Part I: Subjectivity revealed through textual fields of reference
- Does Tristram Shandy have a beginning?
- Subjectivity discovered through Locke's philosophy
- Locke's philosophy as a pattern of communication
- Manic subjectivity
- Melancholic subjectivity
- Decentred subjectivity
- Wit and judgement
- The discovery of communication by verbalising subjectivity
- The body semiotics of subjectivity as discovery of man's natural morality
- Eighteenth-century anthropology
- Part II: Writing strategies
- The first-person narrator
- Interruption
- Digression
- Equivocation
- Part III: The play of the text
- The imaginary scene
- The games played
- The humor
- Part IV: Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Includes chronology of Sterne's life and works, and further history of Tristram Shandy.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 130-135).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired from Geoffrey Day in 2018.
- ISBN:
- 0521328071
- 9780521328074
- 0521312639
- 9780521312639
- OCLC:
- 16982947
- Online:
- Publisher description
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