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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Shandy"”.
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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 Shandean world : an examination of the effects of narrative technique on the fictional world of Tristram Shandy
… Sterne's The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman.Analysis of the fictional world of Tristram Shandy, reveals a binary world which is created by the novel's narrative technique. Distinct outlines of the two fictional worlds of Tristram (TW) and the Shandy Brothers (SBW) can be …
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Treatment Plan
… in fiction. From Laurence Sterne’s <u>Tristram Shandy</u> to B.S. Johnson’s <u>The Unfortunates</u>, we see an exploration in content and delivery of story. In Sterne’s <u>Tristram Shandy</u>, he uses tactics such as drawings and deletion of pages. In Johnson’s <u>The Unfortunates</u>, he shifts …
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The Sterne voyage of the <i>Pequod</i>: the tale of a tub in American literature
… 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 of a tub. Sterne’s tubs …
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Adding to the fragment : happiness & conversation in three eighteenth-century comedic novels
… Recent scholarship on Tom Jones and Tristram Shandy has sought to enlarge the role religious ideas and beliefs play in our understanding of these novels. This paper counters these readings by suggesting that comedic novels need to be read as comedies and that the field of Happiness Studies has …
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The anatomy of anatomia: dissection and the organization of knowledge in british literature, 1500-1800
… 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 narrative. Chapter Five considers …
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Imagination and mediation: eighteenth-century British novels and moral philosophy.
… manipulations of the material page in Tristram Shandy as an attempt to expose the limitations of print communication and to suggest new ways of reading that could overcome those limitations. Chapter Three examines the writing of Smith, Kames, Mackenzie, Reeve and Godwin in order to illustrate …
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Healthy debate: medical discourses in the early novel
… The novels are The Life and Opinions 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; …
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Kings and Courtesans: A Study of the Pictorial Representation of French Royal Mistresses
This thesis explores the development in the pictorial representation of four important French royal mistresses. It looks at works depicting Agnès Sorel, mistress to Charles VII; Diane de Poitiers, mistress to Henri II; Gabrielle d’Estrées, mistress to Henri IV; and Madame de Pompadour, mistress to …
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COMMENT PRENDRE UNE AUTRE FORME : UNE ÉTUDE SUR LA TRADUCTION ANGLAISE ET LA VERSION CINÉMATOGRAHIQUE DU ROMAN BAISE-MOI DE VIRGINIE DESPENTES
Cette étude examine l’importance du roman Baise-moi de Virginie Despentes, illustrant le caractère féministe de l’œuvre de Despentes. L’étude utilise le manifeste de Despentes, King Kong Théorie, pour mieux comprendre les thèmes (le viol, la pornographie et la prostitution) et le fond de Baise-moi. …
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Kings and Courtesans: A Study of the Pictorial Representation of French Royal Mistresses
This thesis explores the development in the pictorial representation of four important French royal mistresses. It looks at works depicting Agnès Sorel, mistress to Charles VII; Diane de Poitiers, mistress to Henri II; Gabrielle d’Estrées, mistress to Henri IV; and Madame de Pompadour, mistress to …
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COMMENT PRENDRE UNE AUTRE FORME : UNE ÉTUDE SUR LA TRADUCTION ANGLAISE ET LA VERSION CINÉMATOGRAHIQUE DU ROMAN BAISE-MOI DE VIRGINIE DESPENTES
Cette étude examine l’importance du roman Baise-moi de Virginie Despentes, illustrant le caractère féministe de l’œuvre de Despentes. L’étude utilise le manifeste de Despentes, King Kong Théorie, pour mieux comprendre les thèmes (le viol, la pornographie et la prostitution) et le fond de Baise-moi. …
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The Wound and the Show: Representations of Eccentricity in Sterne, Wordsworth, Lamb, and Dickens
… anachronistic. Through readings of 'Tristram Shandy', I argue for a form of nostalgia which avoids either fetish or restorative longing, but instead acts as a tool to reinvent a more playful relationship with narrative teleology. I consider the critical debate over whether Wordsworth was …
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Alienation and Dwelling: The Pursuit of Happiness in Late Eighteenth-Century Literature
… two turns to Laurence Sterne, whose Tristram Shandy discloses a notion of ‘hobby-horsical happiness’. Sterne satirizes objectivity as dogmatism, pointing out that all knowledge emerges from within a particular perspective. As such, facts and values are not truly distinct. In resisting …
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The sense of Conrad's endings: a study of the five major novels
… still greeted each new volume of <em>Tristram Shandy</em> with considerable excitement. What I am really arguing is that writers such as Sterne, Brontë, Thackeray, and Melville were not mere freaks, “sports” who were born decades or centuries ahead of their time and who consequently wrote with …