The Comic Art of Laurence Sterne / / John M. Stedmond.

Paradoxically, the name Sterne connotes both innovation and plagiarism; his writings are a strange mixture of the old and the next but this apparent incongruity helps to explain the nature of his comic art. His works show influences of Rabelais, Cervantes and Montaigne, at the same time foreshadowin...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]
©1967
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Heritage
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Physical Description:1 online resource (188 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • I. Context and Meaning
  • II. Genre and Tristram Shandy
  • III. The Qyestion of Style
  • IV. Tristram as Satirist
  • V. Tristram as Clown
  • VI. The Faces of Yorick: The Sermons and A Sentimental ] ourney
  • VII. Sterne's Comic View
  • Appendix. PLAGIARISM AND ORIGINALITY
  • Index