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Full Description
The first four chapters of the book provide a close reading of the satiric, comic, and tragic action of Laurence Sterne's novel in the context of criticism from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Chapter 5 provides a summary of Chapters 1-4, focusing on Sterne's purpose in revising satiric plot structures and in blurring the lines between fiction and autobiography. Chapters 6-8 then examine Sterne's themes from TristramShandythat inform his letters, sermons, and other fiction; Chapter 9 discusses the international reception of TristramShandy and argues for using writing-to-learn strategies to teach Sterne's greatest novel to undergraduate and graduate students.
Contents
Preface; 1. Walter, Toby, Tristram, and the Reader: Sterne's Revision of "Dullness"; 2.The Yorick Standard, Walter's Benevolent Dullness, and Tristram's Friends:The Plot of Satire in Tristram Shandy; 3. "TrueShandeism": The Unhappy Comic Action in Tristram Shandy; 4. Isolation and Death: The Tragic Undertones of Shandean Benevolent Dullness; 5. Benevolent Dullness, Ambiguity, and the Reader: Modal Complexity and the Plots of Tristram Shandy; 6. Laurence Sterne's Letters; 7. The Shandean Sermons of Parson Sterne; 8. Parson Yorick in A Sentimental Journey and in A Continuation of Bramine's Journal; 9. The International Perspective on Tristram Shandy and the Argument for Using Writing- to-Learn Strategies to Teach Sterne's Globally Significant Novel ; References; Index
