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Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne
The humour of Tristram Shandy has often been acknowledged, but it is not easy to find scholarly articles on Laurence Sterne which suggest that their authors laughed as they wrote. Nine authors have been invited to redress this in the year of the...
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The humour of Tristram Shandy has often been acknowledged, but it is not easy to find scholarly articles on Laurence Sterne which suggest that their authors laughed as they wrote. Nine authors have been invited to redress this in the year of the tercentenary of Sterne's birth. This volume offers nine different facets of humour, a kaleidoscope which enables readers to recombine at will the genial, the bawdy, the sentimental, the ludicrous, the hobby-horsical, the philosophical, the irreverent
Table of contents; preface; list of abbreviations; list of illustrations; introduction; chapter one -- tristram shandy as comedy of errors; chapter two -- ""make them like unto a wheel""; chapter three -- a book that excites laughter; chapter four -- a ""new order of beings and things""; chapter five -- asses, artichokes and macaroons; chapter six -- sterne''s comic menagerie; chapter seven -- ""into what a delicious riot of things am i rushing?""; chapter eight -- tactus interruptus as sternean trope; chapter nine -- surfeits of words, surviving lists in tristam shandy; bibliography ; contributors
The humour of Tristram Shandy has often been acknowledged, but it is not easy to find scholarly articles on Laurence Sterne which suggest that their authors laughed as they wrote. Nine authors have been invited to redress this in the year of the tercentenary of Sterne's birth. This volume offers nine different facets of humour, a kaleidoscope which enables readers to recombine at will the genial, the bawdy, the sentimental, the ludicrous, the hobby-horsical, the philosophical, the irreverent, ..
