Satire, Comedy and Tragedy - Sternes Handles to Tristram Shandy

This book provides a closereading of the satiric, comic, and tragic plot structures of TristramShandy and then traces the themes that inform Laurence Sterne's greatest novel to his letters, sermons, and other writings. The book also argues for a writing-to-learn approach to teaching Sterne's recurring themes.

List of 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

About the author

Richard Raymond isProfessor Emeritus of English, Mississippi State University.

Product details

• Authors: Richard C. Raymond, Raymond Richard C.
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2023
• EAN: 9781839988639
• ISBN: 978-1-83998-863-9
• No. of pages: 180
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 18th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Religion, Language readers, Literature & literary studies, Biography, Literature and Literary studies, Philosophy and Religion