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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Tristram Shandy"”.

  1. Tristram Shandy and the editors: A question of reading perspective

    Whisler, Karen

    eiu Repository record

  2. Writing as Conversation: The Importance of Communication in Laurence Sterne's <em>Tristram Shandy</em>.

    Wilson, Christie Dawn2003

    <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 …

    etsu Repository record

  3. PROVINIALIZING WORLD LITERATURE: TRISTRAM SHANDY AND MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN AS PRECURSORS TO CURRENT POSTCOLONIAL CRITICAL THEORY

    Jordan, Rachel

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  4. The Shandean world : an examination of the effects of narrative technique on the fictional world of Tristram Shandy

    Eckman, John Stuckey1979

    … of Laurence 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) …

    ballstate-thes Repository record

  5. Treatment Plan

    Cutler, BetsyVirginia Tech2010

    … 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>, …

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  6. The Sterne voyage of the <i>Pequod</i>: the tale of a tub in American literature

    Pinker, Michael J.

    … 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 of a tub. Sterne’s …

    binghamton Repository record

  7. Adding to the fragment : happiness & conversation in three eighteenth-century comedic novels

    Kempf, Nathan, 1975-University of Missouri--Columbia2010

    … 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 …

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  8. The anatomy of anatomia: dissection and the organization of knowledge in british literature, 1500-1800

    Landers, Matthew ScottEnglish2022

    … 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 narrative. Chapter Five …

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  9. Imagination and mediation: eighteenth-century British novels and moral philosophy.

    Wells, MichaelUniversity of British Columbia2008

    … Sterne's 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 …

    ubc Repository record

  10. Healthy debate: medical discourses in the early novel

    Gifford, Mary G. S.Oxford Brookes University2018

    … 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 …

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  11. The Wound and the Show: Representations of Eccentricity in Sterne, Wordsworth, Lamb, and Dickens

    Haughton-Shaw, ElizaUniversity of Cambridge2021

    … 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 …

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  12. Alienation and Dwelling: The Pursuit of Happiness in Late Eighteenth-Century Literature

    Hobday, AlexanderUniversity of Cambridge2022

    … Chapter 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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  13. The sense of Conrad's endings: a study of the five major novels

    Davidson, Arnold E.

    … century 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 …

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