The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (New Casebooks Series) - Hardcover

Sterne, Laurence

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312075669 ISBN 13: 9780312075668

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 1992

Synopsis

The eight essays in this collection offer a substantial introduction to Sterne's satiric masterpiece, Tristram Shandy. According to Melvyn New's combative and engaging "lntroduction Polemical," they share an interest in the traditions from which Tristram emerged and a turning away from the now dated attempt to make Sterne "one of us," a modern existentialist. The Further Reading section gives readers commentary on some forty-five additional works.

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Review

"A lot of nonsense is written about Laurence Sterne's "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman" -- and that's just as well. It would be depressing in the extreme if this triumphant tangling up of the threads of reason with the strands of linear narrative were to admit of any effective unravelling; which is as much to say, that were you to find yourself picking apart a lucid, non-discursive exposition of the novel - its themes, its techniques, its plot -- you would know that you had finally gone mad." -- Will Self

Book Description

Sterne's utterly original novel - the meandering, maddening 'autobiography' of one of literature's oldest comic characters.

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0312075669
• ISBN 13: 9780312075668
• Binding: Hardcover
• Editor: New Melvyn