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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Laurence Sterne"”.
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The narrator in Laurence Sterne's A Sentimental Journey
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'All Job's stock of asses': The fiction of Laurence Sterne and the theodicy debate
This thesis argues that Sterne's fiction is an ambiguous representation with religious and libidinal subtexts of a struggle to give a coherent metaphysical account both of the significance of compassion for suffering and of causality. This implies that Sterne's fiction cannot be fully understood …
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The Visual Novel: Fictional Space and Print After 1900
… as contemporary small press editions of works by Laurence Sterne and Oscar Wilde. At times when screen culture advances print’s obsolescence, both historically and more recently, visual writing makes print predominant in the media ecology once again by drawing upon the very technologies that …
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Alienation and Dwelling: The Pursuit of Happiness in Late Eighteenth-Century Literature
… explores how four writers — James Boswell, Laurence Sterne, Mary Wollstonecraft, and William Wordsworth — respond to alienation in their respective works. All four of them might broadly be described as autobiographical writers and have been chosen because, in writing the self, they seek to …
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Healthy debate: medical discourses in the early novel
… of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759-1767) by Laurence Sterne; The Adventures of Roderick Random (1748) by Tobias Smollett and The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom (1753) also by Smollett. The debates are respectively man-midwifery and conception theories; naval medicine, and the …
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The Sterne voyage of the <i>Pequod</i>: the tale of a tub in American literature
… Swift’s maniacally madcap extravagance follows Sterne, whose <em>Tristram Shandy</em> is the first book in the language in tales of tubs, and in most other respects as well.</p> <p>Sterne sheds a labyrinth of words in fashioning <em>Tristram Shandy</em>, all deriving from and producing the tale …
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The Wound and the Show: Representations of Eccentricity in Sterne, Wordsworth, Lamb, and Dickens
… the mid-eighteenth and later nineteenth century: Laurence Sterne, William Wordsworth, Charles Lamb, and Charles Dickens. It takes off from the eccentric as a figure who the reader perceives as damaged or hurt in some way, yet who also conveys a peculiar kind of pleasure or a sense of reassurance, …
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Writing as Conversation: The Importance of Communication in Laurence Sterne's <em>Tristram Shandy</em>.
<p>Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy is a novel consumed with conversation. The conversations that the characters have with each other and the ongoing conversation between Tristram and the reader all address the importance of communication. This study examines the theme of communication as Sterne …
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The sense of Conrad's endings: a study of the five major novels
… as different in time—but not in technique—as Laurence Sterne, on the one hand,and John Barth, Donald Barthelme, and Jorge Luis Borges, on the other, fictionally assess the complex relationship between possible fact and probable fantasy, between realistic content and artistic form. In other …
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The anatomy of anatomia: dissection and the organization of knowledge in british literature, 1500-1800
… Four explores the narratological structure of Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy. I investigate the role of memory reconstruction in shaping Tristram’s autobiography, highlighting, in the process, the influence of Enlightenment theories of the brain on the digressive condition of Sterne’s …