Satire, Comedy and Tragedy Sterne’s “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'...
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| Abstract | 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. |
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| TableOfContents | Front Matter
Table of Contents
PREFACE
Chapter 1: WALTER, TOBY, TRISTRAM, AND THE READER:
Chapter 2: THE YORICK STANDARD, WALTER’S BENEVOLENT DULLNESS, AND TRISTRAM’S FRIENDS:
Chapter 3: “TRUE SHANDEISM”:
Chapter 4: ISOLATION AND DEATH:
Chapter 5: BENEVOLENT DULLNESS, AMBIGUITY, AND THE READER:
Chapter 6: LAURENCE STERNE’S LETTERS
Chapter 7: THE SHANDEAN SERMONS OF PARSON STERNE
Chapter 8: PARSON YORICK IN A SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY AND IN A CONTINUATION OF BRAMINE’S JOURNAL
Chapter 9: THE INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVE ON TRISTRAM SHANDY AND THE ARGUMENT FOR USING WRITING-TO-LEARN STRATEGIES TO TEACH STERNE’S GLOBALLY SIGNIFICANT NOVEL
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INDEX Cover -- Front Matter -- Half Title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Walter, Toby, Tristram, and the Reader: Sterne's Revision of "Dullness" -- Sterne's Expansion of the Plot of Satire -- The Critical Background -- Critical Views of Sterne and Their Influence on Readings of Tristram Shandy -- A Plan for Analysis of Sterne's Revision of Dullness in Tristram Shandy -- Chapter 2. The Yorick Standard, Walter's Benevolent Dullness, and Tristram's Friends: The Plot of Satire in Tristram Shandy -- Dullness and Distortion of Reality -- Normative Yorick and His Conflict with Dullness -- Beyond the Black Page: Walter's Benevolent Dullness -- The Sometimes-Self-Conscious Narrator and His Reader: Sterne's Purpose in Revising Dullness -- Chapter 3. "True Shandeism": The Unhappy Comic Action in Tristram Shandy -- Laughing and Giving: Yorick and the Comic Spirit -- The Resurrection of Yorick: Tristram's Contrast of Dullness and Benevolent Dullness -- Tristram's Comic Conflict with Dullness in and beyond the Family -- The Unhappy Ending of Toby's Comic "Siege" -- Chapter 4. Isolation and Death: The Tragic Undertones of Shandean Benevolent Dullness -- Eugenius' Tragic Friend -- Domestic Tragedy: The Isolation of Walter and Toby -- "The Work Itself": Tristram's Dance with Death -- Chapter 5. Benevolent Dullness, Ambiguity, and the Reader: Modal Complexity and the Plots of Tristram Shandy -- Dullness versus Benevolence: Public and Private Conflicts -- Ambiguity and Sterne's Purpose in Revising Traditional Modes of Dullness -- Laughter and "Self-Creation": The Reader and the Surrogate Reader -- "So What?" Why This Study of Generic Plots in Tristram Shandy Matters -- Chapter 6. Laurence Sterne's Letters -- Sterne's Epistolary Rebukes of Moralistic Dullness -- Resisting Death, Fostering Friendship Marital Tension and Separation -- Sterne's Love Letters: The Rake, the Father, and the Pastor -- Letters and Fiction on Finding Joy in the Pain -- Chapter 7. The Shandean Sermons of Parson Sterne -- Sermons on "Kindred Virtues" and the Folly of Dullness -- "True Shandeism": Parson Sterne's Challenge to Moralists -- Religion as Joy and Mouring -- Chapter 8. Parson Yorick in A Sentimental Journey and in A Continuation of Bramine's Journal -- A Sentimental Journey -- Yorick's Sentimentality -- Yorick's Deeper Sentiment -- Yorick's Reflections on Overcoming Dullness -- Continuation of Brahmine's Journal -- Letters to a New Mrs. Sterne? -- Confessional Letters from the Bawdy Prelate -- Letters on Spiritual Healing -- Chapter 9. The International Perspective on Tristram Shandy and the Argument for Using Writing- to-Learn Strategies to Teach Sterne's Globally Significant Novel -- The International Influence of Tristram Shandy and Sterne'sInternational Influencers -- Pedagogical Scholarship on Tristram Shandy -- Samples of Post-Modern Approaches to Teaching Tristram Shandy -- Samples of Contextual and Structural Approaches to Teaching Tristram Shandy -- Final Reflections on Sterne's Dull Novel -- Back Matter -- References -- Index |
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