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Time in "Tristram Shandy"

Markus Widmer
Time in Tristram Shandy Book PDF

Author : Markus Widmer
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2008-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783640202744

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Essay from the year 1998 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1 (A), University of Aberdeen (English Department), course: Tristram Shandy, 4 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Metafiction, according to Patricia Waugh, consists of 'the construction of a fictional illusion (as in traditional realism) and the laying bare of that illusion'. Tristram Shandy, I will argue in this essay, undermines fictional illusion by foregrounding 'the most fundamental set of all narrative conventions: those concerning the representations of time' (Waugh 70). I will exemplify this by trying to apply a conventional set of narratological terms to Tristram Shandy. I will show that these terms, which are based on conventional narratives, are neither exhaustive nor distinctive when one tries to use them for Tristram Shandy. Narrative fiction, Rimmon-Kenan states, has three main aspects: story, text and narration: 'Story' designates the narrated events, abstracted from their disposition in the text and reconstructed in their chronological order, together with the participants in these events. Whereas 'story' is a succession of events, 'text' is a spoken or written discourse which undertakes their telling. ... Time is essential for all of these three aspects, as will become clear in my discussion. Time in itself, following Rimmon-Kenan, can be viewed in three respects: order, duration, and frequency (p. 46). I will focus on the first two aspects since they are more essential to the novel than frequency.4 Finally, I will discuss whether, after my discussion of Tristram Shandy's time structure, one can conclude that the novel is a metafiction according to Waugh's definition of the term.

Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy

Thomas Keymer
Laurence Sterne s Tristram Shandy Book PDF

Author : Thomas Keymer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2006-04-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0195175603

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Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy by Thomas Keymer Pdf

Thomas Keymer's introduction to this casebook examines the historical context and controversial reception of Tristram Shandy, and connects the essays selected for inclusion to the diverse traditions of Sterne Criticism.

Tristram Shandy

Laurence Sterne
Tristram Shandy Book PDF

Author : Laurence Sterne
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1853262919

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Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne Pdf

Introduces us to a group of memorable characters, variously eccentric, farcical and endearing. This book involves the reader in the labyrinthine creation of a purported autobiography. It anticipates modernism and postmodernism.

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

Laurence Sterne
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy Gentleman Book PDF

Author : Laurence Sterne
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780486114668

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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne Pdf

Sterne's novel is filled with unprecedented narrative devices that were both celebrated and vilified when first published. Impossible to categorize, it remains a beguiling milestone in the history of literature.

Camp Austen

Ted Scheinman
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Author : Ted Scheinman
Publisher : FSG Originals
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780374712341

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Camp Austen by Ted Scheinman Pdf

A raucous tour through the world of Mr. Darcy imitations, tailored gowns, and tipsy ballroom dancing The son of a devoted Jane Austen scholar, Ted Scheinman spent his childhood summers eating Yorkshire pudding, singing in an Anglican choir, and watching Laurence Olivier as Mr. Darcy. Determined to leave his mother’s world behind, he nonetheless found himself in grad school organizing the first ever UNC-Chapel Hill Jane Austen Summer Camp, a weekend-long event that sits somewhere between an academic conference and superfan extravaganza. While the long tradition of Austen devotees includes the likes of Henry James and E. M. Forster, it is at the conferences and reenactments where Janeism truly lives. In Camp Austen, Scheinman tells the story of his indoctrination into this enthusiastic world and his struggle to shake his mother’s influence while navigating hasty theatrical adaptations, undaunted scholars in cravats, and unseemly petticoat fittings. In a haze of morning crumpets and restrictive tights, Scheinman delivers a hilarious and poignant survey of one of the most enduring and passionate literary coteries in history. Combining clandestine journalism with frank memoir, academic savvy with insider knowledge, Camp Austen is perhaps the most comprehensive study of Austen that can also be read in a single sitting. Brimming with stockings, culinary etiquette, and scandalous dance partners, this is summer camp like you’ve never seen it before.

Tristram Shandy and A Sentimental Journey

Laurence Sterne
Tristram Shandy and A Sentimental Journey Book PDF

Author : Laurence Sterne
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1999-02-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780679641964

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Tristram Shandy and A Sentimental Journey by Laurence Sterne Pdf

Tristram Shandy provoked a literary sensation when it first appeared in a series of installments between 1759 and 1767. The ribald, high-spirited book prompted Diderot to hail Sterne as 'the English Rabelais.' An ingeniously structured novel (about writing a novel) that fascinates like a verbal game of chess, Tristram Shandy is both a joyful celebration of the infinite possibilities of the art of fiction and a wry demonstration of its limitations. Many view this picaresque masterpiece as the precursor of the modern novel. A Sentimental Journey, which came out in 1768, begins as a travelogue. Yet it ends as a treasury of portraits, sketches, and philosophical musings, for as Virginia Woolf observed: 'A Sentimental Journey, for all its levity and wit, is based upon something fundamentally philosophic--the philosophy of pleasure.'

Laurence Sterne and the Eighteenth-Century Book

Helen Williams
Laurence Sterne and the Eighteenth Century Book Book PDF

Author : Helen Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108842761

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Laurence Sterne and the Eighteenth-Century Book by Helen Williams Pdf

Offers new readings of Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy by considering its design features alongside broader developments in eighteenth-century book production.

The Mezzanine

Nicholson Baker
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Author : Nicholson Baker
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2010-07-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802198228

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The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker Pdf

A National Book Critics Circle Award–winner elevates the ordinary events that occur to a man on his lunch hour into “a constant delight” of a novel (The Boston Globe). In this startling, witty, and inexhaustibly inventive novel, New York Times–bestselling author Nicholson Baker uses a one-story escalator ride as the occasion for a dazzling reappraisal of everyday objects and rituals. From the humble milk carton to the act of tying one’s shoes, The Mezzanine at once defamiliarizes the familiar world and endows it with loopy and euphoric poetry. Baker’s accounts of the ordinary become extraordinary through his sharp storytelling and his unconventional, conversational style. At first glance, The Mezzanine appears to be a book about nothing. In reality, it is a brilliant celebration of things, simultaneously demonstrating the value of reflection and the importance of everyday human experiences. “A very funny book . . . Its 135 pages probably contain more insight into life as we live it today than anything currently on the best-seller list.” —The New York Times “Captures the spirit of American corporate life and invests it with a passion and sympathy that is entirely unexpected.” —The Seattle Times “Among the year’s best.” —The Boston Globe “Baker writes with appealing charm . . . [He] clowns and shows off . . . rambles and pounces hard; he says acute things, extravagant things, terribly funny things.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review “Wonderfully readable, in fact gripping, with surprising bursts of recognition, humor and wonder.” —The Washington Post Book World

Tristram Shandy

Laurence Sterne
Tristram Shandy Book PDF

Author : Laurence Sterne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0393921360

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Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne Pdf

"Packed with carefully curated supplementary goodies, Hawley's edition will allow students and scholars alike to appreciate the breadth and depth of Sterne's wit, creativity, and pathos." --Evan Gottlieb, Oregon State University "This new edition of Tristram expands commentary by the great early novelists and by today's most influential critics." --Paula Backscheider, Auburn University

Your House Is on Fire, Your Children All Gone

Stefan Kiesbye
Your House Is on Fire Your Children All Gone Book PDF

Author : Stefan Kiesbye
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-09-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101603635

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Your House Is on Fire, Your Children All Gone by Stefan Kiesbye Pdf

Shirley Jackson meets The Twilight Zone in this riveting novel of supernatural horror—for readers who loved Ransom Riggs’ Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children A village on the Devil‘s Moor: a place untouched by time and shrouded in superstition. There is the grand manor house whose occupants despise the villagers, the small pub whose regulars talk of revenants, the old mill no one dares to mention. This is where four young friends come of age—in an atmosphere thick with fear and suspicion. Their innocent games soon bring them face-to-face with the village‘s darkest secrets in this eerily dispassionate, astonishingly assured novel, infused with the spirit of the Brothers Grimm and evocative of Stephen King‘s classic short story “Children of the Corn” and the films The White Ribbon by Michael Haneke and Village of the Damned by Wolf Rilla.

A Sentimental Journey and Other Writings

Laurence Sterne
A Sentimental Journey and Other Writings Book PDF

Author : Laurence Sterne
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2003-07-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780191606205

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A Sentimental Journey and Other Writings by Laurence Sterne Pdf

'Love is nothing without feeling. And feeling is still less without love.' Celebrated in its own day as the progenitor of 'a school of sentimental writers', A Sentimental Journey (1768) has outlasted its many imitators because of the humour and mischievous eroticism that inform Mr Yorick's travels. Setting out to journey to France and Italy he gets little further than Lyons but finds much to appreciate, in contrast to contemporary travel writers whom Sterne satirizes in the figures of Smelfungus and Mundungus. A master of ambiguity and double entendre, Sterne is nevertheless as concerned as his peers with exploring the nature of virtue; unlike other writers of sentimental fiction Sterne insists on the inseparability of desire and feeling. This new edition includes a selection from The Sermons of Mr Yorick, which shed light on the concerns of the Journey, The Journal to Eliza, which records Sterne's feelings as he languishes for the company of Eliza Draper, and A Political Romance, the satire on a local ecclesiastical squabble that was the catalyst for Sterne's literary career. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

The Ideal Book

William Morris
The Ideal Book Book PDF

Author : William Morris
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520345225

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This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1982.

Tristram Shandy

Laurence Sterne
Tristram Shandy Book PDF

Author : Laurence Sterne
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0393950344

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Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne Pdf

This edition of the most modern of eighteenth-century novels reprints the text of the first edition of the volumes of Tristram Shandy as they appeared from December 1759 to January 1767, including the two illustrations by Hogarth.

Tristram Shandy

Laurence Sterne
Tristram Shandy Book PDF

Author : Laurence Sterne
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-18
Category : Humor
ISBN : EAN:8596547670223

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Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne Pdf

This carefully crafted ebook: "Tristram Shandy" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Tristram Shandy or, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman purports to be a biography of the eponymous character. Its style is marked by digression, double entendre, and graphic devices. As its title suggests, the book is ostensibly Tristram's narration of his life story. But it is one of the central jokes of the novel that he cannot explain anything simply, that he must make explanatory diversions to add context and colour to his tale. Most of the action is concerned with domestic upsets or misunderstandings, which find humour in the opposing temperaments of its central characters. Arthur Schopenhauer cited Tristram Shandy as one of the greatest novels ever written.

The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy

Anonim
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy Book PDF

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1522933247

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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy by Anonim Pdf

Laurence Sterne's great masterpiece of bawdy humour and rich satire defies any attempt to categorize it. Part novel, part digression, its gloriously disordered narrative interweaves the birth and life of the unfortunate "hero" Tristram Shandy, the eccentric philosophy of his father Walter, the amours and military obsessions of Uncle Toby, and a host of other characters, including Dr. Slop, Corporal Trim and the parson Yorick. A joyful celebration of the endless possibilities of the art of fiction, Tristram Shandy is also a wry demonstration of its limitations. includes unique illustrations.