Sterne''s Fiction and the Double Principle

Informationen zum Autor JONATHAN LAMB is an author and Bible teacher, and the minister-at-large for Keswick Ministries. For many years he served as Director of Langham Preaching and as a Vice President of the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES). He frequently teaches and trains at events in different parts of the world and is the author of several books including a range of titles published by Langham Preaching Resources and IVP. Jonathan and his wife, Margaret, live in Oxford, UK. Zusammenfassung Laurence Sterne's quotations! plagiarisms and allusions were often employed in the service of the pleonasm! or 'performed pun'. Jonathan Lamb describes Sterne's operation of the pleonasm as his 'double principle'. He asks why the collection and arrangement of fragments had such an appeal for Sterne! and why his most original effects are derived from imitations and repetitions. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Foreword; 1. Scepticism, job and the double principle; 2. Originality and the Hobbyhorse; 3. Associationism; 4. Narratives and readings; 5. The Shandean Sublime.

Product details

• Authors: Lamb Jonathan, Jonathan Lamb
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.08.2008
• EAN: 9780521075138
• ISBN: 978-0-521-07513-8
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Eighteent
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies